TORONTO – The mother of an autistic child who had police show up at her home after threatening a solitary protest at her MPP’s office says she has accepted his apology.
After the premier told him to apologize, Bob Delaney released a statement Tuesday, four days after police knocked on Melanie Palaypayon’s door.
But another 24 hours passed before Delaney phoned Palaypayon and conveyed his apology personally.
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Palaypayon says she and Delaney are planning to meet in person at an autism service provider, so she can get answers to questions she has about a new autism program that has many parents upset.
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The Liberal government has decided to defund Intensive Behavioural Intervention treatment for autistic children five and older, which has left more than 800 children – like Palaypayon’s son – who had spent years on the waiting list, suddenly removed from it.
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The province’s new autism program – which will transition those kids to “enhanced” Applied Behavioural Analysis – will be fully rolled out in 2018, and in the meantime the government is giving those parents $8,000 to pay for private treatment.
But parents say that will only pay for, at most, a few months of intensive therapy.
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