The problem is the systematic discriminatory policy to lower funding for ASD children, and lowering the age for access to the IBI treatment. The relevancy to Social Work is low-income families are systematically been discriminated and their children are further marginalized is a social issue. The objective of the study is to evaluate the immediate impact of reducing the eligible age for government funded access to Intensive Behavioral Intervention (IBI) treatment on parents as well as children. As we know, the Ontario government has already reduced funding for IBI treatments. Also, with the findings of this research we hope to advocate, so the government reverses their decision to cut funding or at least to rise the …show more content…
In this literature review we will attempt to recognize other sources of studies and what is known those research have shown on immediate impact of reducing the eligible age, and on the parents with ASD. Also, how it is affecting parents emotionally and mentally, furthermore to see the benefits early intervention has in the children development and explore the ethics around conducting these studies. Moreover, we will see how effective is cost reduction on the treatment and early access.
• Parents Stress:
It is very important to show new findings and show that early intervention is beneficial for ASD children. Moreover, it is important to show the impact of reducing the eligible are for access to government funded to IBI treatment. According to Karst & Vaughan Van Hecke, suggested in the article “Parent and Family Impact of Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Review and Proposed Model for Intervention Evaluation”, that parents with ASD children show effects in stress level that appears even before the child has been diagnosed with ASD, furthermore they mentioned that levels do not get better as their children are diagnosed, since they have to incur in treatment expenses …show more content…
How ever this study is a comparative study between autism and pervasive developmental disorder. In this study they did an intake of 4 to 8 children who were further separated in two groups according to their condition. Further, according to Smith, Groen & Wynn (2000) the results after visual inspection showed that children with pervasive developmental disorder often gave better scores during the study, then children with autism.
Methodology
The measures that will be taking place in this study will be comparison study since we will be comparing the impact on families and children that receive access to the treatment to the impact on families and children that don’t receive access to the treatment. Immediately we will narrow the area and the population we will be studying.
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