Leeds-Grenville MPP Steve Clark is praising local families with children affected by autism for the key role they played in this week’s announcement that the government will restore treatment services. Children and Youth Services Minister Michael Coteau announced on Tuesday that children five years of age and older will no longer be automatically denied life-changing Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI) therapy.
Clark says local parents and grandparents were among the thousands in Ontario who wrote letters, signed petitions, attended rallies at Queen’s Park and were successful in having a supportive resolution passed by the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville. Clark said he is awaiting full details of the government’s plan and will be watching carefully to ensure the implementation lives up to the promises made by the minister.
