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BISSON, FAMILIES DEMAND BETTER SUPPORT FOR AUTISTIC KIDS

Two Timmins families say $20,000 a year per child from the province is far from enough to cover the expense of autism treatment.

Tyler Stone, Thomas Parker and their families were part of a media event staged by Timmins MPP Gilles Bisson.

Both families have two autistic children each.  They say the$20,000 from the province is about one-sixth the real financial cost.

New Democrat Bisson rejects the entire mechanism in place.

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Gilles Bisson, MPP Timmins (NDP) Photo credit: Bob McIntyre, Moose FM

“If a child in Ontario has a heart disease or a cancer or whatever it is, we take care of them.  And the parent and the child doesn’t have to worry about getting service and being cut off at one point.  Why are we doing that to kids who have autism?” he asks.

“It’s just another condition.  It can be treated and we shouldn’t be saying to kids and families ‘no, you’re cut off after $20,000 a year and you’re on your own.  We wouldn’t do that to anybody else, why are we doing it here?”

Bisson is looking for stories from other local families in the same boat.  He will use them in the legislature to pressure the PC government into better support for the autistic.

 

 

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