Ontario’s fiscal watchdog says there are more than 70,000 children seeking support through the Ontario Autism Program, but fewer than 15,000 are getting funding for core therapy.
Families of the more than 60,000 children seeking services through the Ontario Autism Program say it is slow — a boy in Thorn Hill, Ont., has been on the wait-list for more than 2 1/2 years — that it is not truly needs based, that a lack of service pro…
The number of children with autism receiving publicly funded, needs-based core therapy in Ontario appears to have only now returned to the level it was at five years ago, before changes by the Progressive Conservative government upended the system, new…
The Ontario Autism Coalition says families are having a difficult time accessing consistent, reliable and transparent information about services and it doesn’t help that the minister in charge has “ghosted” them.
Ontario has enrolled 888 children with autism in core therapies — adding just 30 to the government’s revamped program since April — but insists it will meet its goal of enrolling 8,000 kids by the end of the fall.