TORONTO - The Ontario government is refusing to publicly divulge its progress in enrolling children in core autism therapies, after the last update sh...
TORONTO - The Ontario government is refusing to publicly divulge its progress in enrolling children in core autism therapies, after the last update showed it was far off its own target.
But Fullerton’s office refused to provide an update to those numbers in response to a request this month from The Canadian Press. Alina Cameron’s seven-year-old daughter has been on the wait list for government-funded therapy since Oct. 30, 2017 and said for her, seeing the enrolment progress isn’t just a matter of transparency, but a matter of financial planning.
“ we would know generally what’s happening with the program, we would be able to estimate our time on the wait list and prepare financially to fill that gap between now and when our children get the invitation,” Cameron said.As of last month, the government had sent about 6,300 letters to families inviting them to register with the new intake portal. Another 5,000 letters were set to go out at the end of August, but so far, the response has been lower than officials had expected.
They were going in order of registration, meaning they started with children who first sought therapy as far back as 2015. Officials have said it’s possible some don’t even need service anymore. But Angela Brandt, president of the Ontario Autism Coalition, said that means the families now being enrolled in core services under the current government’s program are likely those children already receiving therapy, since they would have been registered in the program the longest.
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