Abstract
Around the campfires of policy scientists, the Brewer-Kakalik research on handicapped children's services is considered a tour deforce of problem-definition breakthrough, achieved through disciplined application of a comprehensive policy sciences framework. A remarkable series of research and prototyping initiatives came out of the Rand Corporation's study of how services were designed and provided to disabled children in America. The institutional innovation of service direction centers helped dramatically to fill the gaps in handicapped children's services and to improve the coordination of services. The project ultimately made a significant contribution to federal legislation that not only brought greater coherence to the government efforts to provide such services, but also guaranteed their rights to adequate services. As an exemplar of policy sciences analysis, it showed the great strength of 'case-wise'
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