Cleared for publication
Every figure below is drawn from Freedom of Information releases and official Ontario sources. Use them directly; each is dated and traceable to a primary record.
Spokesperson
Founder, End The Wait Ontario · HRTO applicant (2025-62264-I)
A parent whose son was diagnosed early, registered immediately, and waited while the developmental window closed. Available for interviews, background briefings, data clarification, and on-the-record comment on Ontario autism services.
Media contact
In the kit
Pull the sheet you need. Each links to verifiable records so you can check the numbers before publishing.
World Health Organization
A father's story of love, resilience, and tireless advocacy, shared with the WHO's 20-million-strong global community on early-intervention science.
Why this exists
My son was diagnosed early. We registered immediately. Then we waited while the developmental window kept closing. This project turns that waiting into public record, evidence, and action.
CCRW · Apr 30, 2026
The Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work — a national disability-employment charity — cited our plain-language stimming explainer in its neurodiversity-in-the-workplace education article. Credit, not affiliation or endorsement.
Ottawa Citizen · Jun 21, 2026
An Ottawa Citizen profile of a Kanata family on the spectrum, citing our FOI-verified data on the OAP funding gap.
CBC News · Mar 30, 2026
A CBC News investigation by Toronto's Enterprise Unit, drawing on FOI-released progress reports.
CBC Ottawa Morning · Mar 31, 2026
A five-year wait, in the founder's own voice, days after the 2026 budget.
The Trillium · Mar 27, 2026
OAC demands core-therapy funding be ringfenced. Trillium policy beat.
The Trillium · Mar 25, 2026
Sneh Duggal's feature on endthewaitontario.com, FOI-verified data, public-record.
OPSEU Report · May 2026
Ontario's largest public service union credited our FOI-verified waitlist data in their report exposing the $1 billion privatization of public services.
Founded by Spencer Carroll. HRTO 2025-62264-I · Applicant. Every number FOI-verified, methodology. All press coverage.
Media inquiries
Available for interviews, background briefings, data clarification, and spokesperson availability. Responses within 24 hours. Urgent deadlines: note your deadline in the message.
Independent verification
Where this data and these explainers are cited, referenced, reported on, and used as a source by third parties — including the Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work (CCRW).
Unions and formal institutions referencing the data.
References Ontario Autism Coalition and End The Wait Ontario data in the context of Ontario Autism Program waitlists, including the reported figure of approximately 67,509 children waiting as of January 2026.
News outlets reporting on the work.
Names Spencer Carroll and reports that he created End The Wait Ontario to improve transparency and compile autism-service data and resources.
Italian-language coverage names Spencer Carroll and End The Wait Ontario, describing the site as collecting autism-service data and resources.
Queen’s Park coverage on accountability and data transparency for Ontario autism families.
Regional and family resource navigators pointing to the data.
Lists End The Wait Ontario as a resource for waitlist data, advocacy tools, regional resources, and an OAP guide.
Cites End The Wait Ontario’s 2026 OAP funding-amounts page.
Notes that End The Wait Ontario uses FOI information to share core clinical service wait-time information with families.
Service providers and disability-sector organizations using the work as a source.
Cites the End The Wait Ontario stimming and autism resource in its neurodiversity-in-the-workplace material.
Cites End The Wait Ontario’s public-vs-private assessment cost comparison page.
Cites End The Wait Ontario for ABA therapy cost and OAP funding-range information.
Parent and community channels where the work is shared.
Shared as a parent-led resource compiling wait-time data and pushing for evidence-based care.
Lists End The Wait Ontario as a source for Ontario autism waitlist data.
End The Wait Ontario and its waitlist figures are discussed in parent and advocacy communities.
Awareness posts list End The Wait Ontario among their sources alongside public-health references.
Posts circulate the site’s Ontario autism waitlist statistics and OAP data.
HRTO Case Disclaimer
The legal claims in Carroll v. Ontario (HRTO 2025-62264-I) involve specific individual circumstances and are distinct from the general advocacy positions expressed on this website. This case alleges that wait times during documented critical developmental windows may constitute discrimination under Ontario's Human Rights Code.
Written by Spencer Carroll
Founder & Autism Advocate
Evidence on this page
Key claims are paired with their source, evidence tier, and verification date so readers can inspect the public record directly.
89,799
children are registered in the Ontario Autism Program
23%
Only 20,633 children have active funding agreements — less than one in four
According to the FAO (2020 report), OAP funding covers less than one-third of estimated need at 2018-19 service levels
$965M
Ontario allocated to the Ontario Autism Program in 2026-27
WHO recommends accessible, community-based early interventions for children with autism — timely evidence-based psychosocial interventions improve communication and social engagement