Here are some parent responses to the Ontario Court of Appeal’s Ruling that the Ontario government is not discriminating against older autistic children by limiting intensive treatment in the form of intensive behavioral intervention (IBI; also known as applied behavior analysis or ABA) to children aged two to five (as posted in Yes, it is age discrimination):
- The decision to cut off autism therapy “sickens me,” says Lynne Thibodeau in the Ottawa Citizen.
- “I am absolutely speechless,” David Lowrey, a Severn Township farmer, said within an hour of the decision being handed down, as reported in the Barrie Advance. “What this is going to do to the future of my son is astronomical.”
- “Today has been a very difficult day for many of our families,” Dr. Sheila Laredo, a Toronto physician and mother of two autistic boys, said in response to the Court of Appeal decision, in an article in the National Post.
I understand, too much.