Westlaw
- a searchable database of statutory law, case law and legal reference works.
Statutes
Federal
Individuals
with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-446)
http://www.cec.sped.org/Content/NavigationMenu/PolicyAdvocacy/IDEAResources/PublicLaw108-446.pdf
Rehabilitation
Act
http://www.ed.gov/policy/speced/reg/narrative.html
Sites with information about the act and its attendant issues
Counsel
for Exceptional Children’s IDEA resources site
http://www.cec.sped.org/Content/NavigationMenu/PolicyAdvocacy/IDEAResources/default.htm
Counsel for Exceptional
Children’s resources on IDEA '97
http://205.241.44.100/law_res/doc/law/index.php
IDEA 2004
resources (federal department of education)
http://www.ed.gov/policy/speced/guid/idea/idea2004.html
State
Oregon Revised Statutes (Laws
passed by legislature)
http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/
Probably the easiest approach is to use the search engine with "special
education" as the search term.
Oregon
Administrative Rules for Special Education (Administrative agency rules
and regulations)
http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/rules/OARS_500/OAR_581/581_015.html
Oregon information about the federal act and state issues
Oregon department
of education page on Special Education topics
http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/results/?id=40
Case Law
Wrightslaw's Special Education CaseLaw -- selection of opinions from special education case law from all levels of federal courts
Westlaw
- a searchable database of statutory law, case law and legal reference works.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe -- legal research section; good for case law, federal
statutes and code.
Education literature
Use these education-specific databases to locate articles on special education topics published in education journals. The database will sometimes provide a link to the full text of an article; in many cases, it will provide only the citation. Use Vikat to search for the journal title to locate the article online or in print in the Library.
Professional
Development Collection
Page developed by Sarah Beasley (beasleys@pdx.edu)