NEW YORK -- New York City is embarking on a landmark program to assess all public school students for dyslexia and provide targeted, specialized instruction to help them reach their full potential. 

It's the largest, most comprehensive program in the nation and will help students whose parents lack the financial ability to send their kids to special private schools. 

Mayor Eric Adams is dyslexic but says his learning problems weren't diagnosed until he was in college. It has long been his dream to help kids, especially kids form poor neighborhoods, get the help he was denied. 

Now, he's made that dream come true -- not only for himself, but for parents who have struggled to help their kids learn and succeed, CBS2's Marcia Kramer reported.  "For the past 16 years, I know all too well the pain of trying to advocate to support my children to read," said Naomi Pena, who has four children with dyslexia.  Pena was brought to tears as she tried to explain the importance of what the city's new program will mean for her and other parents of kids who have struggled to read.

"We have all experienced firsthand the deep pain of watching our children suffer. We know how difficult it is to get desperately needed services for our children, and we understand the barriers that prevent so many families from getting the support and the instruction they need so their children can learn to read," she said. 

"Dyslexia is not a disadvantage. It's just a different way of learning. And all the children need, they need the tools to know how to understand how they comprehend information," Adams added. Read the full article here