The report provides data on services to handicapped children within the Head Start program during the school year 1984-85. Highlights include the following: the number of handicapped children served by Head Start increased by 2,563 from the previous year to 61,898; children professionally diagnosed as handicapped accounted for 12.2% of total enrollment; in all states but Alaska at least 10% of Head Start enrollees were handicapped; the distribution of the four most frequent handicapping conditions included 61.9% speech impaired, 11.1% health impaired, 6.2% learning disabled and 5.4% physically handicapped; in 1985, 18.1% of the handicapped children had multiple handicapping conditions; some 19.7% required almost constant special education or related services; at least one handicapped child was enrolled in 98.3% of all Head Start programs; half the programs reported they were not able to enroll a total of 5,971 handicapped children most often because these children failed to match the age requirements; other agencies or individuals referred 44.9% of the children to Head Start; other agencies provided special education or related services to 67.9% of the handicapped children; and written or informal agreements with local education or other agencies existed in 95.7% of the programs. (DB)