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Ontario Investing $333 Million to Improve Autism Services

March 30, 2016 By Clive Tonge

Ontario Investing $333 Million to Improve Autism Services

– Toronto, ON
As part of the 2016 Budget, Ontario is investing $333 million over the next five years to launch the new Ontario Autism Program, which will provide children and youth with critical interventions faster, and provide services that are better matched to their needs.

The newly expanded children’s autism program will make it easier for families to access services for their children by reducing wait times, providing more flexible services based on children’s needs, and serving more children and youth. It will also help children receive intensive therapy services during the key early developmental years.

Suzanne Jacobson, Founder - QuickStart-Early Intervention for Autism Hon. Tracy MacCharles - Minister of Children and Youth Services at the announcement of funding to improve Autism Services in Ontario

Suzanne Jacobson, Founder – QuickStart-Early Intervention for Autism
Hon. Tracy MacCharles – Minister of Children and Youth Services

Within two years, provincial wait times for children’s autism services are projected to drop by more than half, on average.

The new approach is informed by advice from families, clinical experts and the Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Expert Committee. It is consistent with scientific evidence and will provide a more responsive continuum of supports. The transition to the new Ontario Autism Program will happen over the next two years.

Highlights of the new program include:

•Reducing wait times so children can access services sooner
•Transitioning to the new integrated autism program by: •Focusing Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI) services to children in the appropriate developmental window: ages two to four
•Gradually transitioning children five years and older currently receiving IBI to more clinically appropriate Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) services
•Providing families with children five years and older on the IBI waitlist with $8,000 in one-time funding to immediately purchase community services or supports based on their children’s specific needs as they transition off the IBI waitlist
•Increasing the duration and intensity of ABA services over four years, starting in 2017, so that services are more flexible and based on children’s individual needs.

To ensure a successful transition from the current program to the future program, the government will establish an advisory group of service providers, parents and other experts to provide strategic advice.

Giving every child the opportunity to thrive and have the best possible start in life is part of the government’s plan to support families and provide services that allow all children and youth to reach their full potential.

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Filed Under: Announcements, Ontario, Webcasts Tagged With: Autism, Children, MCYS, Ministry of Children and Youth Services, Tracey MacCharles, Wait Times, Youth

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