[Toronto, ON] 

Autism Ontario welcomed the opportunity to contribute to the 2026 update of the Canadian Bar Association's Child Rights Toolkit. As an organization with a history of over 50 years supporting autistic children, youth, and their families across Ontario, we understand how legal and administrative systems shape autistic children’s daily experiences of dignity, inclusion, education, health care, and justice.

Our submission suggests key gaps in the current Toolkit relating to autistic and disabled children and proposes opportunities for enhancement. Our intent is to strengthen the Toolkit for use by legal professionals working with autistic and disabled children and emphasize how systemic inequities fundamentally shape how their rights are experienced, interpreted, and too often constrained.

Read the full submission here. 

For more information, please email Autism Ontario’s media team at media@autismontario.com.

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About Autism Ontario

Autism Ontario is the province’s leading source of information and referral on autism whose mandate is to build a supportive and inclusive Ontario for autism. It provides autistic individuals and families across their life course with community-based access to meaningful supports, social learning opportunities, information, and connections. The organization’s commitment to significantly and positively impacting the autism community is driven by its vision: Best life, better world, making autism matter!