The aim of this presentation is to present some aspects of education and employment of persons with visual or hearing disabilities in Zagreb between the two world wars. The presentation is going to be based on research of archival sources. The topics that are going to be presented will include and highlight some aspects of social, legal and organizational context of providing education, vocational training, and employment for people with visual or hearing disabilities between 1919 and 1939 in the area of Zagreb. Education, vocational training, specific care, and sometimes employment for persons with visual and hearing disabilities were organized within two major institutions in Zagreb. These institutions were special and segregated schools for persons with those types of disabilities. The results also provide insight into some specific aspects of quality of life of users and residents in those special schools that were founded for providing specific care, education, vocational training and employment for youth and adults with visual and hearing disabilities. The formal support system was based on medical model of disability. The conclusion is that some persons with visual or hearing disabilities had opportunities to be educated and to be employed, but the majority of them lived their lives isolated, segregated, and sometimes excluded from the society.