Non-legal Resources:

- Pennsylvania Technical Training Assistance Network  (“PATTAN”) which is run through the Pennsylvania Department of Education. PATTAN offers a lot of great guidance for special educators, local education agencies, parents, and administrators. This website a lot of training materials, handbooks, and best practice material available. Additionally, PATTAN offers an annotated IEP with guidance notations, which is essential for parents and teachers. 

• Annotated IEP

• Annotated Functional Behavior Analysis

• Positive Behavior Support Plan

• Parents Rights/ Procedural Safeguards

- Center for Parent Information and Resources is a great resource for parents looking to find more information about Special Education. This website offers information about disability types, eligibility for IDEA and services, webinars, and more. While this website is built for parents, it would be useful to practitioners, educators, and advocates as well. 

- PACER Center is a resource built for families of individuals with special needs, parents of children who are identified, and special educators. This website offers a plethora of resources including a learning center, resources and workshops, translated materials, and the list continues on. This website, although built for parents, families, and educators, would be useful to an advocate or practitioner. 

- The National Center for Learning Disabilities is a great resource for educators and for young adults with learning difficulties. This website offers a substantial amount of resources for teachers and a supportive community for young adults. It has a full category of reports and studies, an advocacy action center, and multiple programs for educators. 

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Non-legal Paid Databases:

- EBSCO is a database that indexes and abstracts a substantial amount of scholarly research, data, and articles. This database would be great for practitioners who are trying to find evidence of best practice or become well-versed in education topics.  This is a subscription database. 

- ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a database solely dedicated to education journals, curriculum, teaching guides, conference papers, and US Dept. of Education materials. This database is incredibly useful for educators, practitioners, and advocates, especially when researching aspects of Special Education. The education journals go back to 1994 and the index goes back to 1966. This is sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education. 

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Non-legal Journals: 

- The Journal of Special Education is a wonderful place to get access to scholarly articles surrounding the ever-changing landscape of education and law. However, this resource is a subscription database and will require purchasing. However, many universities, including Villanova, do subscribe.

- The Council for Exceptional Children publishes a journal for students with additional needs. This journal is titled, "TEACHING Exceptional Children." It is published six times per year. The council for exceptional children is a great resource not only for the journal but for tons more resources. 

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