CHICAGO — As physicians, Dr Berlinda Torres and Dr Edwin Santa have always lived life with a purpose, to help others and bring them back to health. And when they became parents of two boys with autism, they were determined to find a way to make sure Gabriel and Daniel will also live a life with purpose despite their limitations. That led them to open a business where they hope to give a better future to other people with disabilities.
Twenty years ago, they their married life by leaving Puerto Rico to pursue their medical residency in Chicago; Edwin at Rush Hospital and Berlinda at University of Chicago.
Three years later they decided to start a family.
First came Gabriel and only 15 months later Daniel was born.
It was during that second maternity leave that Belinda noticed something off with Gabriel, her oldest child.
“Motor wise he was healthy,” she said. “I notice that Gabriel had poor social skills. He was not looking at his brother.”
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