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'Mommy will help me': Navigating the web of supports for kids with autism in Ontario

Families of the more than 60,000 children seeking services through the Ontario Autism Program say it is slow — a boy in Thorn Hill, Ont., has been on the wait-list for more than 2 1/2 years — that it is not truly needs based, that a lack of service providers means that even with money in hand some families can't find help, and that there is almost no transparency.

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