More than 67,500 Ontario kids waiting for core autism funding as demand grows – CBC
Provincial budget promises $186M in new funding for autism program this year
Mar 30, 2026
One of the first things Deny Soto was told after her son was diagnosed with autism was “get on the list.”
The Toronto mom didn’t really know what she was signing up for in 2022, but she listened. Now, four years later, her nine-year-old son Nico Tsirigotis is still on that list waiting for government funding for core autism services. Those services can include occupational therapy or applied behaviour analysis.
“It’s just sad, because that was a critical part of his development,” said Soto.
“We lost any support that we could have gotten during that time. So we’ve navigated it on our own, we found alternatives … but I won’t know what we’ve missed.”
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/autism-services-funding-ontario-9.7143531
