Ontario government won’t divulge progress in autism program rollout
But Fullerton’s office refused to provide an update to those numbers in response to a request this month from The Canadian Press.“Given that thousands of invitations are out the door to families, and at different stages, providing these numbers no longer reflects the rollout of the Ontario Autism Program like it once did,” spokesperson Patrick Bissett said in a statement.
Cameron is paying nearly $900 a week for part-time services and doesn’t know how much longer she has to plan to cover that, or if she needs to further scale back her daughter’s treatment, or perhaps make a new plan with the bank, she said.Story continues below advertisement Fewer than 1,700 families had responded to the letter and registered with the new system as of mid-August, officials said. The next step in the new process is for invitations to be issued to families to participate in an interview to determine their child’s level of need, and almost 300 of those had gone out.
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