Are there any celebrity parents of children with learning difficulties?

Question

I work for a charity for children with learning difficulties, and I am looking for celebrities who have direct experience of learning difficulties, parents, families etc. to help promote us.

So far I have only come up with Damon Hill and Katie Price.

Does anyone know of any others?

Answer 1

The one I wouldn't recommend is Jenny Mcarthy. From experiance, she has not gone over well with the Autism community. Me personally, I wouldn't donate anything to a charity who used celebrities. Try finding real people, real children.

Answer 2

What about the girl who is dating Jim Carrey - Jenny Macartney?  Her son has autism and is a real advocate.

Answer 3

Henry Winkler- Him and his son both have Dyslexia

They just did a piece on him on Oprah.

He didn't discover he had dyslexia till he was 31.

His son was having trouble in school and was taken to a doctor and diagnosed with it. With the diagnoses Henry realized he had it also.

Answer 4

there are websites-just google 'celebrities with disabilities' they often have a section on parents--

A football player has a son with CP (Szott) sp?

the priest from MASH has a child with aurtism

Answer 5

Jenny Macarthy's son has autism

Answer 6

Doug Flutie's son is autistic.