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Finance Posted by Sylvia on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 (14:21:12)

By Richard Yallop The Australian News.com 22/11/2003

Victorian parents of autistic children are rebelling over a new state government funding arrangement under which pre-school children with severe autism will receive the same fixed subsidy of $4350 as a child with more mild speech and language difficulties.

Some centres providing early-intervention services for children with autism will have their subsidies cut from $6800 per child to $4350, with weekly services to the children halved.

Annette Vrbanac, Melbourne mother of four-year-old Bianca, is likely to have weekly services reduced from five hours to two.

"I'd like (Victorian Premier) Steve Bracks to see the face of the child he's taking the money from," she said.

Autism Council of Australia president Andrew Brien said the change was "grotesque", and failed to take into account the special needs of individual children.

"Autism requires higher levels of services, because of the nature of the disability," Mr Brien said.

"Either the people devising the policy don't understand the nature of autism, or they don't care."

Victoria's Department of Human Services says the changes are intended to bring greater equity to the funding of early intervention services.

Service providers are expected to "average out" spending by giving more than $4350 to those children with greatest needs, and less to those with more skills.

But Maria Lanki, manager of Kalparrin, in northern Melbourne, said all children at her centre had high needs because of their severe behaviour and communication problems.

Funding will drop from $6800 per child to $4350.

The increasing incidence of autism in the west has caused concern, with an estimated 27 per 10,000 children affected.

The states employ different funding models, with Western Australia (considered to have the most progressive autism policies), providing $6100 for each child under six receiving early-intervention services. In NSW, the state Government follows the broad principle that funding should be based on an assessment of the individual child's need.

A Victorian government-commissioned report by La Trobe University academic Sheila Crewther stressed the importance of early intervention, and the greater ultimate cost to the community of assisting children with autism later in their life.

The Government responded with a $410,000 grant for autism, but at the same time changed early-intervention funding in a way that cut the money and services received by some autistic children.

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