This handbook is designed to help educators at the secondary and postsecondary level implement strategies to serve students with special needs in tech prep programs. Chapter 1 suggests how it can be used. Chapter 2 defines tech prep and addresses its funding, students, and mission and goal in Virginia. Chapter 3 focuses on what the Perkins Act says about special populations, particularly funding, equal access, and descriptions of special populations. Chapter 4 suggests steps and strategies for full access: monitoring, recruitment, enrollment, exploration, placement, instructional modifications and accommodations, alternative testing, supplementary support service, and other necessary supports. Chapter 5 lists those strategies and requirements of which students must be aware, and which are necessary for students to be successful each year in tech prep programs. Chapter 6 describes best practices, specifically, the Southwest Virginia Regional Center for the Learning Disabled (LEAP) and St. Mary's County Technical Center. Appendixes include a list of resource organizations: state tech prep, national tech prep, national disability related toll-free telephone services, Virginia Community College System (VCCS) programs, directory of diversity programs in the VCCS; glossary; common abbreviations for transition planning; Americans with Disabilities Act fact sheet; and annotated listing of 86 print and audiovisual items in the Postsecondary Lending Library. Contains 14 references. (YLB)