Excerpt from the press release:

“The report entitled Autism in Canada: Considerations for future public policy development – weaving together evidence and lived experience is the product of nineteen months of work. Throughout this period, experts and lived experience members of the oversight panel and its working groups assessed evidence as well as best practices and policies, and engaged in a wide-ranging consultation of stakeholders on issues focused on three main topics:

Social inclusion,

Diagnosis, supports and services, and

Economic inclusion.

The report provides key findings meant to help guide policy makers at all levels of government as they consider the development of effective programs and flexible strategies adapted to a broad range of needs. It also supplies Autistic people, their families, service providers, NGOs, government organizations, and all Canadians with much-needed information and pathways for future research.”