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Special Education Law
The Special Education Law Computer program or IDELR (Individuals with Disabilities Education Law Report)
This program is primarily concerned with the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act)
Several sections of information are available in the source.
First of all IDELR is available now only in print (located on top of the file cabinets in back of the Reference collection in Gorham Library).
The Print version includes:
Highlights for the current year
Statutes and Regulations
Numerical Index
Subject Index
Table of Cases
Statute/Regulation Tracker
Topical Index Digest-Keywords to help you look-up your topic
Decisions-The actual cases explained (Volume 21 [1990]- 46 [2006] Subscription ceased after this date.
Citators
The Online version contains: (not available at USM)
Cases
--Disability
--General Education
--Higher Education
--Special Education
Statutes and Regulations
--Public Law
--Regulations
--Statutes
Topical Index (IDELR)
Legal Rights Treatise
Law and Practice
Special Education Treatise
Decisions or Cases and the Topical Index are the most needed parts of the resource for our students. Students are often asked to look at particular cases that support a certain topic. Hence the Topical Index shows the student the proper keywords to use, or which area to click to get the types of cases they want.
A very useful way to search for a topic is to use the "What do I do when. . . The Answer Book on___________" series. Found next to the Special Education print volumes. From general to specific these books take a look at the very hot topics in Special Education, and give cases to back up there assertions. These cases can then be found in the print volumes under the first part of the citation which is also the volume number in this case "43" in 43 IDELR 49 or whatever the number of the case is.
Of course do not hesitate to ask questions!
Created by: Tim Lynch
Created on: 04.30.2006
Last Updated: 06.07.2007
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