Bob and Suzanne Wright, co-founders of Autism Speaks, will headline the premiere screening of Sounding the Alarm, a poignant documentary about families touched by autism, beginning at 6 p.m. at the University of Miami Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables.

Bob Wright is former Chairman and CEO of NBC Universal.  He and his wife, Suzanne, founded Autism Speaks after their grandson was diagnosed with autism in 2004.  Autism Speaks is now the largest organization representing families of people with autism in the U.S. with affiliates in the United Kingdom, Canada and Qatar.

Sounding the Alarm takes viewers on a journey with families across the U.S. and after their children receive autism diagnoses. Children must attend countless therapy sessions, families are forced to move from state-to-state seeking insurance coverage for treatments, and others struggle with the insurmountable financial burdens of providing care for their loved ones.

The film also highlights Katie Wright and her son Christian, the young man whose autism diagnosis moved his grandparents to establish Autism Speaks.

Joining the Wrights at the premiere will be Autism Speaks President Liz Feld, Sounding the Alarm producer and director John Block, and John D’Fri of Parkland whose Tide Carwash is featured in the film because it has built an employment culture for persons with disabilities.

The premiere event will begin with a reception at 6 p.m., and continue with the film screening at 7 p.m.  A question-and-answer period will follow the film.

Tom Whitehurst, Raymond James’ Senior Vice President of Investments, is sponsoring the premiere of Sounding the Alarm.

For more information about attending the Sounding the Alarm premiere and conducting interviews, please call David Stiefel at 305-448-1456 or dstiefel@greatcom.com.