Handicapped children in preschool playgroups.

The playgroup movement started 10 years ago as a "do-ityourself" nursery school in London. It has now mushroomed into a national organization named the Preschool Playgroup Association (P.P.A.) with a membership of over 7,000 groups. Each branch area has an organizer whose expenses are paid by the local groups, and centrally there are two national advisers who are paid from a Government grant. The Peterborough and district branch, to which I am medical adviser, has 23 playgroups catering for nearly 700 children. The groups