After court win, Las Vegas couple to host special education forum

A salient Las Vegas mates who recently won a lawsuit against the Clark County School District connected behalf of their dyslexic girl is hosting a escaped forum connected peculiar education.

The event, which is unfastened to parents, teachers and assemblage members, volition beryllium held from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. connected Jan. 14-15 astatine the South Point Hotel Casino & Spa’s Sonoma Ballroom C and D. The lineup of speakers and topics volition beryllium the aforesaid some days, according to a quality release.

A U.S. District Court justice ruled successful October that the schoolhouse territory violated the national Individuals with Disabilities Education Act by failing to guarantee that the girl of Republican governmental advisor Sig Rogich and Las Vegas lawyer Lori Rogich received acquisition utilizing a circumstantial teaching method for children who person dyslexia.

The territory was ordered to reimburse the mates much than $450,000 for backstage schoolhouse tuition and proscription costs.

“This is simply a important triumph for our girl and for students who larn differently,” Lori Rogich said successful the quality release. “With caller hope, we person decided to proceed this travel and volition big a forum for parents, teachers and advocates to sermon acquisition rights, disposable resources and involution strategies for students with peculiar needs.”

Speakers volition beryllium the Rogiches; Kelli Sandman-Hurley of the Dyslexia Training Institute; Dana Blackhurst, caput of schoolhouse astatine The Chandler School, a backstage schoolhouse that serves children who person dyslexia and different learning differences; and attorneys Hillary Freeman, Jodi Bouer and Kim Mack Rosenberg.

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