Until its reorganization in 1948, the Association had provided a variety of services to handicapped children in metropolitan New York for fifty years. Interviews with members of the Association's board and staff focus on the transition from service agency to foundation made possible by the bequests of Milo Belding. In the last quarter century the Association's grants have supported research in prenatal and perinatal problems, genetics, and embryology, as well as conferences on prematurity, the placenta, limb morphology, and teratology. Studies of learning disabilities, mental retardation, and accident prevention are detailed. The Association's international collaborative studies with the University of Aberdeen, the Karolinska Institute, and the University of Kyoto are described. Staff cooperation with the NIH and the background of President Kennedy's Panel on Mental Retardation are recalled.

Memoirs included personal recollections of doctors Howard Rusk, John Lind, Dugald Baird, and Clement Reid; and of William McPeak and Laurance Rockerfeller.