Alex Barton, is a five-year-old boy in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Wendy Portillo, Alex’s kindergarten teacher recently humiliated him by have the other students in the class take turns telling Alex “what they don’t like about him.” She followed this up by having the students vote on whether Alex should stay in the class or not. Alex was kicked out, by a 14-2 margin.
Andrea Horwath, MPP (NDP—Hamilton Centre), Bruce McIntosh (Ontario Autism Coalition), and Stefan Marinoiu (a hunger striker for autism services) address the media regarding the IBI program waitlist.
Taline Sagharian explains the class action lawsuit that she is leading against the Ontario Ministry of Education and seven Ontario school boards in a live CBC interview.
One of the most difficult aspects of advocacy is that we do not possess the resources of government to compile province-wide data. As a result, when we meet with officials regarding the plight of families of children with autism, we must rely on their data. In order to end this disadvantage, we need your help.
The OAC has developed a survey to develop a database on the successes, concerns and struggles that our families in Ontario face. The information you provide will remain anonymous, however will be utilized when meeting with Ministers and others when discussing the issues that people are really facing out there. You will remain absolutely anonymous. For example, we ask only for your child’s month of birth, and not the day, both to protect your privacy and to allow us to re-calculate our statistics in the future without having to re-survey you. Your personal info will never be shared with anyone, however the circumstantial information will be tallied so that discussions can include the real issues as specifically experienced. We hope that you will take a few minutes to help out all our children by sharing your situation.
