There was plenty of star support Wednesday at the Voice for Mikey gala in Sharon, which raised money for children and families living with austism.

Mikey Intoccia, 6, is the inspiration behind the gala; he is on the austism spectrum and is non-verbal.

“First they thought he might have been deaf because he wasn’t talking,” Mikey’s dad Michael Intoccia said. “We had to go through all the tests…go through the whole country of meeting doctors. We are trying to get him to speak one day.”

The boy’s father says the gala came together in just two weeks and raised $300,000 before it even began.

Actor and Dorchester native Mark Wahlberg showed up in style, landing by helicopter on a nearby golf course.

Wahlberg is currently filming a movie about what these families experience every day.

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