Issues, concepts, and strategies that impact directly on the ability of vocational education to deliver its services to special groups are the focus of this yearbook. Chapters by 24 different authors are divided into three sections. Section 1 provides an overview of special groups, how special groups evolved, their underlying structure and diversity, and how vocational education might be of benefit in solving some of their problems. Section 2 contains chapters which focus on specific special groups and their individual status in society-at-large and describe in detail certain personal characteristics that tend to categorize persons into special groups. Section 3 includes a series of chapters that give detailed attention to specific strategies that might be employed in delivering vocational education to special groups. Programs for personnel development, integration of special services with instruction, and general administrative and organizational techniques are discussed. The special groups discussed include the handicapped, women, retirees and middle-age career changers, blacks, Native Americans, Mexican-Americans, prison inmates, migrants, welfare recipients, veterans, and youth. (TA)