This conference report contains a collection of thirteen papers delivered at the Region VI (New Mexico, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Oklahoma) inservice training conference, which focused on special needs groups (i.e., those with academic, socioeconomic, or physical handicaps that prevent them from succeeding in regular vocational programs). Titles and authors of the papers follow: "National Effort for Meeting Needs of Special Populations in Correctional Institutions and Indian Education as Related to Vocational Education" by Victor Van Hook; "National Effort for Meeting Needs of Special Populations--Adult Education" by John W. Thiele; "National Effort for Meeting the Needs of Special Populations--Women, Bilingual" by Wilma Ludwig; "State Advisory Council" by Alton D. Ice;"State Effort for Meeting the Needs of Special Populations in Vocational-Technical Education" by Cadar Parr; "VESA-CETA Package" by James Dasher; "The Trend of National Efforts in Training the Disadvantaged" by Francis Tuttle; "Vocational Programs for the Handicapped/Health Occupations for the Handicapped" by Spencer Guimarin; "Vocational Adult Education: Commit or Forget" by John W. Talbott; "Vocational Education for the Disadvantaged: Compliance or Commitment?" by Katy Greenwood; "Designing Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education Programs in Vocational-Technical Education to Meet the Needs of Handicapped Students" by LaNiece Robison; "Institutional Vocational-Technical Skull Sessions" by Domingo Arechiga; and "Design Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education Programs in Vocational-Technical Education to Meet Needs of the Disadvantaged" by Raymond F. Faucette. (BM)