An update from yesterday's ABLLS-R assessment. We did the same assessment 1 year and 1 day ago, and the boy scored 309. His score this time around was 828. He's gaining skills so rapidly that it's almost impossible to keep up at times, and that's awesome! /1

He's in a great school with a fantastic school board.
We work with an excellent ABA provider.
We get awesome support from Ron Joyce for OT.
St. Elizabeth has provided great consultative SLP/OT services.
The boy is in a good place, and it will continue to get better. /2

This is both a good thing and a problem. In order to get these things for the boy, we had to move.
We had to establish strong relationships with the school and the board.
I had to spend several days researching providers in multiple regions.
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I had to set inheritance money aside from my father's passing in 2018 to fund the boy's therapy. That suggestion @AmyFeePC had about using inheritance money? Yeah, we're doing it.
We needed to establish relationships with multiple providers in Hamilton.
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I had to scale back my business to part time so that I could take the boy to his various appointments and therapies.

That is a laundry list of things. And IMN House did each and every one of them. And for what? Healthcare. We did these things to get healthcare for our son. /5

The vast majority of people cannot and should not have to do these things. Single parents. Immigrant/newcomer families. People who simply cannot navigate the bizarre and fragmented system of services for a child, and who simply want to "take them to the doctor to get better." /6

People who don't have dying parents and therefore don't have that option. People running AirBNBs or selling jewelry. People who don't have flex in their schedule. First Nations people, who can't even think about autism because they don't know what garbage is in their water. /7

Everyone in Canada should have at least the same level of access to service that the boy does without having to rely on inheritances or a Childhood Lottery prize from the Ministry of Community, Children's Gaming, and Social Services or requiring a Ph.D. in system navigation. /8

This all has a very simple solution, and it's in a lovely 63-page PDF that is now in the public sphere. Get the lead out, @ToddSmithPC. Parents shouldn't have to wait anymore. We've done that. It's your turn now. #NoMoreChildhoodLottery #TickTockTodd /9 /END