TORONTO — Ontario's progress in giving children with autism access to government-funded core therapy has slowed so significantly that at times the number of kids enrolled is actually declining, despite a ballooning wait-list, according to documents o
TORONTO — Ontario's progress in giving children with autism access to government-funded core therapy has slowed so significantly that at times the number of kids enrolled is actually declining, despite a ballooning wait-list, according to documents obtained by The Canadian Press.
"There's going to be a reckoning," said Alina Cameron, president of the Ontario Autism Coalition."You're going to have the community clue in on this, and they're going to be very upset, because what this means is that that estimated wait time of five to seven years just got longer." "The slower that the is moving, or the more bottlenecking that's occurring, it does impact the clinician's ability to expand services and to make services more available," he said.
The budget for this year is $720 million, which is more than double the level of funding under the previous Liberal government.
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