Like any student record, Special Education records need to be kept and maintained in order to comply with state regulations, and to assess the future needs of the student. The real difference is that student files for children with special needs can be hundreds or thousands of pages long, depending on how much attention the child has needed throughout the years. With this being said, it can be very difficult to keep hard copies of records of these lengths. Finding a single piece of paper in a file of thousands is time-consuming, if not impossible, so the best solution is to have these records scanned by Datamation.