While there's a wait for Core Clinical Services (direct funding), there ARE things you can do after registering your child in the OAP
Check out our blog: "I've Registered My Child in the OAP. Now What?"
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🎃Sponsors Wanted🎃
Help support the 2nd Annual Halloween Fun Fair in Cayuga!
📅Oct 25, 2026
⏰12–3 PM
📍River Road Nature School
🎟️FREE ENTRY
We’re seeking local businesses, organizations & community partners to help make this family-friendly event possible
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ALT A Halloween Fun Fair 2026 sponsorship flyer featuring autumn leaves, pumpkins, and event details for October 25th at River Road Nature School in Cayuga, Ontario
🌟 Our TechEmpower Webinar Series runs Oct 27–29, covering accessibility features on macOS and Windows 11, and how to navigate the workplace as a person with a disability. Free and open to all. Register: bit.ly/TechEmpW_EN
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(1/2) Accessibility reports are due soon!
If your business or non-profit has 20+ employees, now’s the time to get ready for the Dec 31, 2026 deadline. Ontario’s new #Accessibility Compliance Reporting Portal makes filing faster, easier, and more convenient than ever.
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ALT The study title is ‘I Call Them Our Village’: Experiences Of Caregivers in
Ontario's Extensive Needs Service. The study authors include Victoria Rombos, Zainab O. Salami, Nicholas Denomey, Genevieve Ferguson, Renee Baysarowich, Dennis Newhook, Stephanie Sutherland, Irene Drmic, Jordan Edwards, Srishti Sharma, Kathryn Decker, Tamara Milicevic, and Melanie Penner.
Effective speech therapy for autistic children is shifting away from making them sound "typical" and toward building meaningful connection, self-advocacy, and genuine participation in the world.
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Community message from YouThrive Program
Rooted & Regulated: An Emotion Regulation Group Centering People of Colour is a 10-week psychoeducational group for Black, Indigenous, and Racialized youth aged 14-25.
"But the more I think about restraint and seclusion, the more I realize that we have another enormous gap in the conversation: what happens after?" endseclusion.info/4ylgEyg#EndSeclusion
Don't miss this important conversation on the realities of #GBV and the experiences of women, girls and gender-diverse people with disabilities. 📅September 29, 2026 | 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET
Click here to register -> buff.ly/8xoJl9g
September is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Month.
This year’s theme is “Everyone Plays a Part: It Takes a Community” and it reminds us that supporting healthy pregnancies and people with FASD is a shared responsibility.
Learn more:
ontario.ca/FASD
ALT September is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Month.
One day. One country. Six million minutes of reading. 📚
The Great Read-Along is back, and it’s easy for schools to join. Sign up your class for free, read together on October 22, and add your minutes to the national goal.
👉 thegreatreadalong.ca/#GreatReadAlong#LDAtSchool
ALT The Great Read-Along 2026 promotional graphic featuring an illustrated house with children, youth and adults reading in different spaces. Text reads: “Sharing our Success Story, 2026 Edition.” Logos for the Institut des troubles d’apprentissage and the Learning Disabilities Association of Canada appear at the bottom.
ALT The Great Read-Along graphic with the message: “Reading: A powerful driver of educational success.” Additional text reads: “On October 22, let’s come together to reach 6 million minutes of shared reading!” An illustration shows a child carrying a tall stack of books.
ALT The Great Read-Along “How it works” graphic. Step 1: Sign up for free as a class, family, with friends or on your own. Step 2: On October 22, read what you enjoy, wherever you are, whenever it works for you, for as long as you like. Step 3: Share your thoughts, favourite reads or what you’ve learned.
This guide explains what Ontario parents should know about IEPs, including accommodations & modifications, sensory & communication needs, transition planning, parent involvement, & what to do when an IEP isn't working
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MyBenefits is an online service available 24/7 for Ontario Disability Support Program and Ontario Works recipients to:
✅ send messages and documents to caseworkers
✅ check payments
✅ report changes
✅ receive, view and download letters
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Accessibility starts locally. Use our quick online tool to send a letter to your local news outlets and call for disability inclusion in your community ahead of municipal elections in BC, MB, ON, PEI, and the Northwest Territories. #InclusionStartsLocalwin.newmode.net/inclusionsta…
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If you're in Winnipeg, ON or QC, elections are coming up. Talk to your candidates about disability issues.
Social benefits that get folks out of poverty is a matter of government policy choices!
thespec.com/opinion/contribu…#EndDisabilityPoverty
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As Parliament resumes, Inclusion Canada’s second federal policy recommendation is clear: modernize the Disability Tax Credit and reform how people qualify for federal disability benefits.
The Disability Tax Credit was never designed to determine eligibility for income-support programs. Yet DTC certification is now required to access the Canada Disability Benefit and other important supports.
For many people with intellectual disabilities, the DTC application process is inaccessible, burdensome and duplicative—particularly when they have already undergone a rigorous assessment to qualify for a provincial or territorial disability income program.
Approximately 40% of people with intellectual disabilities who qualify for provincial and territorial disability programs are nevertheless denied access to the DTC. As a result, many are also shut out of the Canada Disability Benefit.
Disability policy should not be driven by tax policy.
Inclusion Canada is calling on the federal government to:
• Decouple eligibility for the Canada Disability Benefit from the DTC;
• Automatically recognize recipients of provincial and territorial disability income programs as eligible for the CDB;
• Continue modernizing the DTC and the broader federal disability eligibility system; and
• Align DTC eligibility criteria with the broader definition of disability in the Accessible Canada Act.
Read Inclusion Canada’s five recommendations for the upcoming federal budget: inclusioncanada.ca/resource?…
ALT Person in a wheelchair blocked by a locked gate with a padlock labeled "DTC" and signs for Canada Disability Benefit and RDSP, symbolizing that the Disability Tax Credit should not be a gatekeeper to essential disability supports.
Today, Minister Hajdu announced that starting next week, Canada Disability Benefit recipients will receive a lump sum supplemental payment of $150 to help offset the cost associated with obtaining the disability tax credit: canada.ca/en/employment-soci…
ALT Canada Disability Benefit recipients will receive a supplemental payment of $150 in September 2026
New in the blog - "Ontario Autism Program Core Clinical Services: A Parent Guide"
This guide explains what Core Clinical Services is, what the funding can be used for, how to prepare for the DON, how to choose services, etc
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