A Father Speaks About Dealing With a Dyslexia Diagnosis
Pablo Alvarez was an avid reader as a child. So he just couldn't understand when his very own son, Jose, hated reading. Hear Pablo's story about dealing with his son's dyslexia diagnosis and...
========== My name is Pablo Alvarez. I live in Plano,
Texas, and I have three sons, as well as a wife, who have learning differences. I was
born in Puerto Rico, and we moved to the U.S. when I was young. I met my wife Lola
when I was working in Mexico on a six-month assignment. She was working
part time at the office. We dated for a while, and my first impressions... I guess, I
would never have thought that she had any kind of learning difference or
anything like that. I guess it took me until our youngest, Jose, until he was
actually identified with dyslexia, to realize that my children had learning
differences. Before that, I knew that they had struggles in certain topics, or with
certain concepts, or certain things in school. But up to that point, I guess I
didn...