Ruling favours Ontario boy in autism-therapy case

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A six-year-old Ontario boy has won a court decision requiring the provincial government to continue funding his treatment for autism.

Andrew Lowrey of Orillia was diagnosed with the serious and disabling neurobehavioural syndrome when he was 4.

The Ontario government funds intensive behavioural intervention therapy for autistic children at a cost of about $50,000 per child per year. However, the funding ends when the child turns 6.

Andrew's parents, David and Maureen Lowrey, challenged the funding cutoff as age-discriminatory and contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. CP

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