TV News Stories on the Struggle for Intensive Behavioral Intervention

BCTV News: New lawsuit in BC to ensure that medically necessary autism treatment is not blocked at the school door (09/09/04)

BCTV NEWS interviews Jean Lewis on a story about 23 families who have filed a lawsuit in Supreme Court (relating to Landmark ‘Auton’) against the Liberal Government of British Columbia for public funding of medically necessary autism treatment.

CBC TV news, 'Canada Now' program: Barbara Rodrigues renews her 100+ day protest picket against the BC Government, in an unrelenting fight for son Jeremy’s constitutionally mandated right to medically required autism treatment.

CHBC TV News: Penticton’s Barbara Rodrigues -- Jeremy’s mom -- challenges autism *Broken Promises* at the BC Government Caucus meeting in Penticton BC.

During her protest, Barbara faces Gordon Hogg, Minister of Children and Family Development, and Rick Thorpe, Minister of Competition, Science and Enterprise.

BCTV News, "That was then ... this is now": Jean Lewis -- Aaron's mom and FEAT BC Director -- exposes how BC Liberals have broken promises made to children with autism, within 90 days of forming the new BC Government. BC Liberals passionately condemned the former NDP Government's appeal of the landmark BC Supreme Court 'Auton' judgment -- a ruling ordering that Government must fund medically necessary autism treatment -- but now the new Attorney General says Liberals will press ahead with the NDP appeal because he claims the ‘Auton’ ruling sets a bad 'health care' legal precedent that must be overturned by a higher court
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CKVU News: Linda Cucek’s son, James, has been consistently denied medically necessary autism treatment by BC’s Government, although his parents have pleaded for many years. Now, in his late teens, James is suffering the inevitable, harmful consequences of government neglect and failure — a painful, costly, ‘revolving door’ of hospitalization and ineffective drug “therapies”. BC’s Children’s Commission reviewed the government harm being done to James and rightfully ordered that government provide behavioural autism treatment. The Commission’s ruling has been ignored, as have all government’s promises to long suffering autistic children in BC.

CBC “Canada Now”: Barbara Rodrigues resumes protest against the BC Government as her fight enters day 103 on the picket line. Barbara’s struggle is to have government renew its agreement for at least partial funding of her son’s doctor-prescribed Lovaas-type autism treatment. The funding agreement, originally mediated by the BC Children’s Commission based on its Tribunal review of NDP autism policy, has now been abandoned by the Liberal government.

CBC "NewsWorld": FEAT BC Executive Director, Sabrina Freeman, discusses the Dosanjh Government's appeal of a landmark BC Supreme Court ruling in favour of children afflicted with autism (RealPlayer format).

BCTV News: FEAT BC Director, Jean Lewis, discusses BC's Dosanjh Government appeal of BC Supreme Court autism decision (RealPlayer format).

BCTV News: Landmark BC Supreme Court victory for children with autism. FEAT BC Director, Jean Lewis, discusses the ruling (RealPlayer format).

BCTV News: "Leaving BC for Health Care"; a story about the emergence of two-tiered health care in BC and about two BC families struggling to defeat autism -- one is forced to leave BC for Alberta to get provincial funding for autism treatment they cannot otherwise afford privately. (RealPlayer Format)

CBC News: Bev Sharpe discusses the struggle to privately fund autism treatment for her daughter, Allison; FEAT BC delivers 8200 signature petition to BC legislature in Victoria while in response, NDP government Ministers point fingers at each other (RealPlayer Format)

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