2026-06-18 from cbc.ca
An estimated 20,000 children are stuck on Alberta’s Family Support for Children with Disabilities (FSCD) waiting list, facing years of delays to get speech, behavioural and other treatment or therapy for autism and various disabilities.
Caseworkers within the provincial government gave those numbers to their union and said many of these children have already been deemed eligible — some have even signed initial contracts — but they can’t access funding for treatment until Alberta assigns a caseworker, and the limited number of provincial staff are maxed out.
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