06-02-2019 23:51 via ottawacitizen.com

Conservatives' autism funding plan short-sighted, parents say

Cutting wait list times for autism services is great. But what then?
That’s the question parents of children on the autism spectrum who spoke to this paper had after the provincial government announced its new autism strategy on Wednesday.
“It will address bringing down the wait list numbers, but I think it’s short-sighted,” said Scott Corbett, a Barrhaven parent with two boys on the spectrum.
The lifetime funding caps of $140,000 for a child entering the system at age tw
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