Researchers at Ontario's Wilfrid Laurier University who surveyed over 2,600 parents and caregivers of children with autism found long wait times for funding and therapy, and significant education loss in the switch to remote learning. "It felt like the hardest challenge of my life,' says one of the researchers who also supports a son with autism.
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Despite an judge finding the driver in Toronto s deadly van attack guilty on all 10 counts of first-degree murder, there is concern among the autism community that the trial itself, which saw autism argued as a defence, further stigmatized those with the disorder.(Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian Press)
When Michael Cnudde, who has autism, learned that lawyers for the man accused of Toronto s deadly van attack in 2018 would be using the disorder as a defence for their client, his immediate reaction was: How dare they?
Yet despite the rejection of that argument on Wednesday by Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy, who found Alek Minassian guilty on all 10 counts of first-degree murder, there is still concern that the trial itself further stigmatized the autistic community.
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