Ontario Autism Service Availability Map

Four years of phone calls. Two MP interventions. An ombudsman complaint. Emails to the Premier, the Minister, AccessOAP. Silence. Form letters. Nothing.

We've paid thousands out of pocket for speech therapy, OT, whatever we could afford. The intensive behavioral support he actually needs costs more per month than most families spend on rent. We're not wealthy. We've been drowning.

Then a clip of me discussing autism diagnosis and early intervention was shared on the World Health Organization's official social channels. A Canadian father talking about what timely support means — and what happens when children wait years for services that guidelines say should begin within weeks of diagnosis.

I built this organization because it should have existed when we needed it. I filed a human rights complaint because silence wasn't working. Carroll v. Ontario argues what thousands of families already know: making disabled children wait years for medically necessary services during their critical developmental window may constitute discrimination under Ontario's Human Rights Code.