The Children’s Law Center created and posted a Special Education Pro Bono Attorney Training Manual. This resource has sample documents,  Special education law, statutes, regulations, case law, and new regulations, information about IEPs, eligibility, evaluations, and more. This resource would be phenomenal for all to see.

American Bar Association Special Education Advocacy: A Guide for Attorneys is available for free on the American Bar website. This resource provides some overviews, assistance in identifying children, evaluations and more. While this resource does not provide templates or citations to black letter law, the resource does walk an attorney through how to effectively advocate for their student-client.

The Education Law Center is an amazing resource for parents and advocates. The Education Law Center offers a free, easily accessible Parent Guide on their website which is a 127-page document explaining law, process, and best practice to parents and advocates. This resource is a great tool for attorneys due to the clear and unambiguous language, a clear timeline of IDEA set requirements, and sample letters, sample reevaluation requests, and more.

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. 

Wrightslaw is also a phenomenal resource for special educators, parents, attorneys, and advocates. This website is run by a husband and wife whom both teach special education law at William and Mary Law School. On this website, one may obtain information about laws, case law, special education legal dictionary, news, a law library, articles, blog posts, and a question and answer section for parents who have questions about best practices or issues parents are experiencing with their school district.