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RSS FeedsAutism group says minister warned of `long, hard four years´ if they didn´t support changes
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13 february 2019 23:41:43

 
Autism group says minister warned of `long, hard four years´ if they didn´t support changes
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


Behaviour analysts say children’s minister Lisa MacLeod and her staff threatened to make their lives miserable for the next four years if they didn’t endorse the government’s changes to autism services.In a memo to members Wednesday, the board of the Ontario Association for Behavioural Analysts said “the minister and her staff requested that ONTABA provide a quote of support, without providing full details on the program, and indicated that failure to do so would result in “four long years’ for the organization.”It went on to say that “the minister also indicated that if a quote of support was not forthcoming, a communication that behaviour analysts are ‘self-interested’ would be released from her office ... In spite of the implied risk, the organization refused.”One analyst who attended the meeting said it was more “akin to dealing with a mob boss than an elected official.”The rift with ONTABA is part of an escalating division between the Ford government and some in the autism community in the wake of its overhaul to the system, which MacLeod has pledged will clear the massive wait list for services in two years.Parent support group Autism Ontario — which was praised for supporting the changes by MacLeod, the minister of children, community and social services — issued a statement saying it “neither proposed nor endorsed” the revamp.Read more:PC political staffer and father of two autistic teens quits in anger over Ontario autism overhaulFord government autism program overhaul met with outrage by some parents who fear kids will lose outEditorial | Ford government’s bait-and-switch on autismParents of children with autism are also feeling bruised by the government’s dismissal of the Ontario Autism Coalition, a grassroots Facebook group of parent advocates, as “professional protesters.”A senior source in the community and social services m ...


 
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