The paper presents selected results of a research project focused on the attention paid to pupils with special educational needs in basic schools (ISCED 2A). The aim of the research was to identify the specific features of the professional choice of pupils with a disability approaching the end of the compulsory school attendance and to propose educational and counselling measures for the support of the choice. The questionnaire was distributed to more than 200 pupils with a disability as well as without a disability. The results yield a comparison of both groups in their professional choice. Attention is paid to the differences in the factors that influence the choice, preferred values, the relationship between kind of handicap and the choice.