This handbook is intended to assist guidance counselors involved in helping special needs students choose vocational programs. Included in the manual are an overview of 9 special needs populations; position statements of the American School Counseling Association and on rehabilitation and school counselors working together; guidelines for selecting, administering, scoring, and reporting results of tests used in assessing special needs students for educational programs; prevocational policy for mainstreamed students; lists of 40 occupations with the largest projected growth and 20 fastest growing occupations for 1982-1995; a description of typical course offerings in area vocational-technical schools; descriptions of 33 different programs offered in area vocational-technical schools; and guidelines for administering different types of standardized vocational tests. (MN)