Michael Douglas shared a private triumph with his fans this week as he showed video of his special needs son Dylan giving a speech at a school fundraising event in New York with he and wife Catherine Zeta-Jones looking on.
Dylan Douglas, 15, who is the eldest child from the marriage between Michael and Catherine Zeta-Jones, struggles with dyslexia – difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols – and attends the specialised Windward School in New York.
On Monday Dylan took to the stage his famous father took a video of his son to put on his Facebook page with the caption: “So proud of Dylan! Speaking at a Windward School fundraiser.”
The facility is a premier school for students with dyslexia and language-based learning difficulties and Michael revealed that he and his wife and daughter Carys, 13, relocated from Bermuda back to the US so Dylan could get the education he needed.
“My son deals with dyslexia to a degree,” Michael said of his then-ten-year-old to The Guardian in 2010. “It runs in the family and my brother has it. He goes to a special school.”
The 71-year-old actor is rather partial to sharing private moments with his Facebook fans.
On Monday Douglas shared some pictures of he and his son attending an event together with the words:
“Last night Dylan and I went to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. We got to see Chicago, Cheap Trick, NWA, and Steve Miller perform.”
