Operating disclosure

The standards applied to government should apply here too.

This page discloses how the site is funded, how traffic is counted, how evidence is handled, how corrections work, and what accountability activity is tracked.

Direct answer

Each disclosure has its own page because funding, analytics, methodology, and corrections require different evidence and should not be reduced to one summary statement.

End The Wait Ontario operating disclosure · Verified 2026-07-10

Parent-led, independent, and accountable to the record.

Project independence
End The Wait Ontario is an independent advocacy and information project. It is not the Ontario Autism Program, AccessOAP, a service provider, a political party, or a government agency. Editorial conclusions are the site's own and should remain distinguishable from the primary records they cite.

Operating rules

  1. Claims should remain traceable to a public record, official source, or identified research paper.
  2. No sponsor, advertiser, political party, service provider, or government body approves editorial content.
  3. Traffic figures must distinguish human visits from bots, crawlers, health checks, and repeated requests.
  4. Material factual corrections should be made promptly and the relevant verification date updated.

Four areas that should remain inspectable.

Four areas that should remain inspectable.
DisclosureWhat it coversSource
Funding and independenceWho pays for the site, whether sponsors or institutional donors influence it, and where operating costs come from.Review disclosure
Traffic and access patternsHow visits are counted, how automated traffic is separated from human use, and why raw request totals are not treated as people.Review disclosure
Data and methodologyHow primary sources are selected, how derived analysis is labelled, and how source dates and uncertainty are handled.Review disclosure
Corrections and updatesHow factual errors are reviewed, corrected, dated, and distinguished from disagreements about interpretation.Review disclosure

No external approval.

Public institutions and cited organizations do not review or approve articles before publication.

Errors are corrigible.

A material factual error should be corrected. A disagreement with an argument is not automatically a factual correction.

Challenge the record directly.

Submit a correction

Questions and answers

Where can I check the project's sourcing and disclosure practices?

Use the transparency pages linked here for methodology, funding, and traffic context. For a specific claim, also inspect the source and date on the page where that claim appears.

Claims and sources from this page(2)

What practical steps can parents take while waiting?

To register for the Ontario Autism Program, a child must be under 18, live in Ontario and have a written autism diagnosis from a qualified professional. Suspicion alone does not meet the registration requirement. Register through AccessOAP and supply the supporting documents it requests. The diagnosis must identify the child, assessment date, diagnostic statement and professional’s name and credentials.

Source: Ontario government — Ontario Autism Program eligibility and registration · Open source record

Is the Ontario Autism Program underfunded?

The 2026-27 Ontario Budget allocated $965 million for autism services, up from $779 million in 2025-26, while 91,974 children are registered. The budget record supports the current allocation; the historical FAO funding model is cited separately.

Source: 2026-27 Ontario Budget · Open source record

The evidence

Use the data

Put these figures in a letter to your MPP, or download the datasets and check them yourself.

Evidence for this operating disclosure

Evidence for this operating disclosure
DateRecordPublisherSource type
SourceTransparency | How This Site OperatesEnd The Wait OntarioSource

Guides and tools related to this page.

Sources on this page

The source chain stays visible.

Key claims are paired with their source, evidence tier, and verification date so readers can inspect the public record directly.

Facts 4
Sources 3

22.5%

Only 20,711 children have active funding agreements (22.5%), less than one in four

Primary source MCCSS FOI via OAC · May 2026 Verified 2026-11-03
Open complete source list(3)
Last system verification: 2026-11-03. Next scheduled update: 2027-02-01.

About this page

Check the author’s context, review method, and how to report an error.

Written by Spencer Carroll

Founder & Autism Advocate

Lived experience: Parent of autistic child in the OAP system