Changes are coming
to Ontario’s autism program.
Families will get $20,000 a year
for children 5 and under,
$5,000 for youth 6-18.
But parents say
intensive therapy could reach $80,000.
The Social Services Minister,
and the Premier,
appear detached.
As though in their own world.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)