A Sunday Poem: “Spectrum”

 

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)

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