NAPERVILLE, IL — There are few things that can stand between Maddox Yates-Benter, 9, and banging the gong at BD’s Mongolian Grill in Naperville. Maddox’s fathers have driven more than an hour just for Maddox, who is on the autism spectrum, to ring the gong. This pure delight in a simple gong bang reverberated to inspire a string of resonant events that led to Maddox banging the gong Friday to officially ring in the start of Autism Awareness Month.
Dozens of people attended the event at BD’s Mongolian Grill as the restaurant chain pledged to match $50,000 in donations to the Organization for Autism Research (OAR) on Maddox’s behalf.
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