Thornhill man who was inspiration behind DANI celebrates 30th birthday
He went from being non-verbal to multilingual

Yorkregion.com
Sept. 1, 2016
By Simone Joseph

Danny Laszlo was non-verbal until he was seven years old.

Today, he is 30 and speaks multiple languages.

He also has a photographic memory that he allows him to actually type out full texts after reading them.

He has autism and physical disabilities.

In honour of his birthday on Aug. 31, Laszlo and his mother, Kathy, decided to have a large reunion with Zareinu, the school that  admitted him as a student despite his challenges and the fact that there were financial issues after Kathy fled Hungary with nothing.

Many of the original teachers attended to celebrate not just the fact that Danny was turning 30, but the fact that he is raising money to donate to Zareinu to help others who need an education and financial support, as he did.

He inspired his mother, along with Susie Sokol, to create the organization DANI in 2006, when it was discovered there was a void in the programs available to him after high school.

Kathy founded the organization to help meet the needs of adults with disabilities in the Jewish community who have completed high school. It started as a parent-to-parent advocacy group and became an incorporated charity.

Go to dani-toronto.com for more information on Dani.