Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Again, I go back to my grandson. If he had cancer, if he had some other disease or problem, he would get treatment. Now that he's seven years old, he's getting zero treatment. That has to change. How we change it, I don't know, but it has to change. When he turns 18 and he's out

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  No.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Again, when we talk about the Canada Health Act, I don't know what we're going to call it, but I just want, as a Canadian citizen, my grandson to get the same treatment anywhere in Canada, period. What we've got to call it or what program it's going to come out of, I don't know.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I have information from a reverend who lived in my community who couldn't get services in Ontario. He picked his family up--his church, the whole works--and moved out to Manitoba. He's really happy with the program out there.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  That's just what it is. Right now, on Friday, we were notified that Child Care Resources is done. Now what do I do?

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Yes. Right now my grandson is seven years old and he's just been put into school. He's been with CCR, Child Care Resources, since he was about two years old, in their program. Now he's out at the IBI program, and on Friday we were notified that he no longer has any ties with Chil

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Yes, we did.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  John Tory stood up in front of the House and had my grandson beside him as he spoke about autism. I was quite impressed by that.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  What I want to hit on is the social aspect of the entire family. As I said earlier, Coffee Chat is a group of parents who get together and sit down and chat with each other. They understand that respite care is needed. There's nobody really out there. I come from a rural area, Ma

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Hi. I'm honoured to be here. My name is Dennis Lendrum and I come from Espanola, Ontario. I'm the grandfather of a seven-year-old autistic child. First of all, I'd like to thank the honourable Carol Hughes, the MP for Algoma--Manitoulin, for inviting me to speak today in the Ho

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  My main part was the beginning; the latter part is just information for the committee.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Five minutes and I'm ready to stop. Then we can chit-chat.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Alex was first diagnosed a week before his second birthday, in October 2005. We were told to get him ready for 30 hours of IBI treatment, as he was priority number one. So our daughter and her husband worked on changing his sleeping habits and everything else in their life and th

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Okay. We got Alex into the 30-hour program. He went through this program. In January of last year he was taken out of the IBI program and dropped into regular school, which hasn't helped him at all. Other parents couldn't have gotten their children to go to this program. Other