This handbook is both a resource for teachers, counselors, administrators, and other support staff and an inservice training manual for a teacher trainer in a workshop setting. Each of the first three (of four) sections contains two components. The first is a resource component with informative materials and various exercises to help the teacher understand and meet the needs of mainstreamed special needs learners. The second component is a set of instructions for activities for a trainer to use in inservice workshops. Section 1 presents information about the roots, needs, attitudes, and behaviors of the special needs learners. It includes suggestions for working with this group in both the academic and vocational shop/classroom. Section 2 deals with meeting the needs of the special needs learner in the classroom. Techniques for adapting instructional content, instructional materials, teaching strategies, and the physical environment are included. Section 3 addresses the coping skills associated with the ability to work with these learners with a sense of empathy and understanding and the self-concept development procedures to help learners develop self-concept and survival skills. Section 4 is a listing of resources, materials, and agencies and organizations grouped by type of disability: hearing impairments, visual impairments, speech impairments, physical handicaps, mental impairments, emotional problems, learning disabilities, and disadvantaged and/or culturally different. Mainstreaming is another heading. (YLB)