'It is very frustrating, and we are very desperate': Toronto family selling home to keep son in autism therapy ONpoli
Selling a home in Toronto will give Will and Nevena Dundas a significant amount of money to put toward therapy for their five-year-old son Dylan -- but they don’t expect to make enough to cover all the support he’ll need to become a self-sufficient adult.The provincial government announced last month that it was changing its funding model for children with autism in an attempt to get some money to all families seeking treatment.
“We [were] looking at a few months, maybe a few years, of therapy, and now we’re talking about a lifetime,” he said. There are 1,105 children with autism in Ontario who are enrolled in full-time therapy treatments rather than school. Parents who will no longer be able to pay for those treatments will instead have to place their children into the school system, even if they may not be ready to spend their days in a classroom environment.
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