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April marks Autism Acceptance Month and
two organizations are coming together to provide social and sensory resources for
the autism community as they continue their mission to highlight the needs for those impacted.
ABC News Live Prime anchor Lindsey Davis spoke to the women leading these organizations.
Actress Hotley Robinson Pete of the Holly Rod Foundation and Culture City co-founder Dr. Michelle Kong.
Take a look. Holly, let's start with you.
Both of you are are mothers of sons with autism.
What made you all decide to merge your foundations in order to have more of an impact?
>> Well, when my son was diagnosed in 2000, I didn't see a lot of people advocating.
I didn't certainly did not see organizations like Culture City.
So, we started Holly Rock Foundation, but what I noticed is that we was just we're just better together.
We're just stronger together. together. our missions are a little bit different, but at the end of the day, we
know that change need to be made for our our kids and other people's kids.
So, when I met Michelle and her amazing husband, Julian, I just was like, "These are my people."
I know that Culture City has now partnered with FIFA for this year's World Cup to provide more resources for those with autism.
So, tell us what those resources will look like, for example, at the World Cup.
>> Yeah. Well, you know, when you go to an event and such as the World Cup, sometimes for some of us it can be a little bit overwhelming where the crowd is a lot, the noise is a lot, it's really bright and really what you need is just a little space to pop off to to come down.
So, we provide training into understanding of what it means to have an invisible disability, what it means to have a different neurobiology.
And then layered on top of the training, we provide tools and resources such as a noise cancelling headphone, a sensory bags that has all the different things.
Cooji, which is a communication app that you can just download on your phone, and for some spaces, a sensory uh room.
And this is one of the reasons why, Lindsay, I was so excited to connect with her because when my little boy, who is the
son of a quarterback, was at the Super Bowl that our team was playing in, he was on complete sensory overload, melted down completely.
And I have a photograph that I showed Michelle of him sitting [clears throat] outside this stadium in Houston, grabbing his head like this because we had to go in the parking lot.
Now, imagine this was 2004.
if we had a sensory room for him to go in, the experience would have been so much better.
>> Makes so much sense that a lot of people are not aware of. And that's the next thing I wanted to actually ask about that shift from autism awareness to acceptance.
>> Yeah. Yeah. We're there. I mean, when we started uh World Autism Awareness Day, it was interesting. Uh we would we knew there needed to be more awareness certainly in 2000 when RG was diagnosed.
But now in 2026, it's it is still about awareness because there are a lot of people that still don't know what autism is.
>> But the acceptance is very very important.
And another A is important action
>> because we got to make things happen for our children and for as they become adults.
Mine is an adult now.
>> who was told he would never have meaningful employment.
And obviously you know that story. He does. He works for
the Los Angeles Dodgers. He's he's killing the game as he would say.
[laughter] Um, but you know, he still has his issues and I'm so happy to say that Culture City is installing a sensory room at Dodger Stadium, which is very, very important.
>> Yes.
>> Needs to be everywhere now.
>> Needs to be everywhere.
>> And you mentioned that you're kind of 25 years into the game. What made you decide to found the Holly Rod Foundation with your husband?
>> We started because of Parkinson's disease, ironically enough.
My dad was diagnosed with Parkinson's in just when he was only in his 40s and we didn't see any Parkinson's organizations or anyone really advocating for Parkinson.
So we started Hollywood for that reason and then got the diagnosis for autism and realized we needed to expand our mission
because much like Parkinson's, autism is very expensive.
>> Um there's a lot of inequity with uh black and brown children and we knew we had to be the spokespeople for that.
>> And Dr. what how much would you say how much progress have we made and how much more is there still left to do? I think
we certainly have made progress, but there's still a lot to be done because if you think about it, even just like your family story and our story, there's so many elements that are similar in how the diagnosis was given and how families are still told even today of here are the things that here's a diagnosis and here are the things that you are not going to be able to do, right? And and what is what is so important is to really understand that when you have a disability like this, it's a lifelong journey and it doesn't just impact that individual, it impacts the entire family unit. But when you have a disability that's invisible,
>> it truly is an access problem. And it made us realize that access is not just
about ramps and railing. Access is about
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