Flaws in N.B.'s new autism therapy system, say parents
Last Updated: Monday, December 10, 2007 | 9:24 AM AT
CBC News
Some parents of autistic children say their experience over the last 18 months with New Brunswick's latest therapy program has left them longing for a time when they were in charge of finding therapy for their kids and the government just paid the bill.
"It might have had its flaws, but it worked better for him [her son], and he made way more progress," said Cindy Havens, mother of two autistic children.
In Ontario parents have a choice between going to a government-run clinic or managing their own program, Havens said.
"And you know what? If you have the ability of choice, I think it makes a lot more people stand up and be more accountable, as opposed to have a monopoly."
A year and a half ago, the New Brunswick government signed contracts with seven privately run, community-based agencies to provide autism therapy to children five years old and younger.
Havens said she has observed a lot of problems with the new agency system, including a shortage of trained support workers and children not getting their 20 hours of therapy a week.
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Canadians must make a decision whether they wish to live in a society that puts the health and safety of its citizens above the demands of globalish empires.
We`ll either be spending a large chunk of our future endeavors repairing the damage that their products and faulty medical devices have caused to humanity or suffering the consequences.
Take leaded gasoline, what kind of monsters would knowingly have that crap spraying all over our environment?
The Same Kind of Monsters That Knowingly Allowed our Blood System to Be Jeopordized infecting Thousands More And The Same Monsters that Allow all Kinds of Toxins in the Vaccines!
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