What will the next government do to support families with Autistic children? It's one of many questions on the mind of voters with election day set fo.
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More needs to be done in Ontario to support families with Autistic children. Alina Cameron is a mom to a seven year old daughter on the Autism spectru.
Ontario s autism program has undergone four major revamps in the past six years, and has seen five different ministers in charge, and Alina Cameron just wants her daughter s over four-and-a-half year wait for treatment to be done.
The wait for a new autism program continues.
It was announced in February, but NDP critic Teresa Armstrong says there are still a lot of unanswered questions.
“The pilot program, that has yet to determine its metrics for success, has no staff to run it, or families to pilot with, and will service a mere 600 kids when there are 42,000 on the wait list,” she says.
Armstrong says many more have aged out of the program, making them ineligible for any support.
Angela Brandt, president of the Ontario Autism Coalition, says wait lists for “life-changing” therapies continue to get longer.
“This government promised to reduce the wait list, but instead they doubled it,” she says.