This Compendium is a manual of information related to the vocational education of handicapped and disadvantaged students. Section 1, Article Series, reprints fourteen articles published in professional journals. Topics include vocational education's role in career education for handicapped students, personnel development, cooperation of special education and industrial teacher education, individualized education programs, measurement and evaluation, motivating and managing behavior, teaching safety, cooperative work-education, inservice, and individualizing instruction. Section 2, Handicapped Series, includes sections of the manual To Serve Those Who Are Handicapped. Materials address mainstreaming; student recruitment; vocational assessment; vocational counseling; career education programs; support services; individualized instruction; facilities, equipment, and materials modification; placement services; program evaluation; inservice education; and classroom procedures. Section 3, Disadvantaged Series, reprints segments from a book which deal with curriculum adaptations and teaching techniques found effective in working with disadvantaged students. The approximately twenty activities may provide students characteristics, activity description with potential advantages and disadvantages, facilities/equipment, instructional materials, and references. Section 4, Legislative Series, contains summaries of these major pieces of legislation related to serving special needs students: Vocational Education Act, Education for All Handicapped Children Act, and Rehabilitation Act of 1973--Section 504. Section 5, Newsletters/Brochures, provides two Network brochures. (YLB)