Al Roker Shares Rare Photo of Son Nick Roker Heading to College

“We are bursting with pride after Nick earned his associate’s degree in the Arts,” Roberts, 65, wrote on Instagram after his graduation. “More to come on his educational journey. But this milestone was hard won!”

“So very proud of you @nickroker155 and your fellow graduates,” the journalist continued at the time. “You’re all living proof that neurodiversity is a value worth honoring and celebrating.”

And the couple, who married in 1995, have never been ones to hold back Nick, who Al once described as “somewhere on the spectrum and maybe obsessive-compulsive.”

“But those labels can be frustrating; they don’t begin to describe who Nick really is,” Al explained in a 2019 essay for Guideposts magazine. “He started working with speech, behavioral and occupational therapists, developing strength, conversational skills and mobility.”

And, according to the weatherman, Nick “blossomed far more than Deborah or I could have ever expected.”

“I can’t begin to take credit for who Nick is and who he might become,” added Al, who’s also dad to daughter Courtney Roker, 39, with late ex-wife Alice Bell. “All sorts of specialists can tell you about limitations for this and that. Nick never got that message.”

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