Every ninth child in Ontario : Cost-benefit analysis for investing in the care of special needs children and youth in Ontario

Put another way, there is a cost to society and to the economy when expenditures are not made to diagnose, effectively treat, and supportively intervene in the environments of children and youth with special needs. [...] The jurisdiction of the Office also includes students of the provincial and demonstration schools, youth in court holding cells or being transported to and from court holding cells, First Nations children and youth, and children and youth with special needs. [...] This figure is exactly the same as the one in nine that generally applies to the whole of the disabled population reported through the Participation and Activity Limitations Survey (PALS) in 2006. [...] Having that failed to cater to the needs of all to navigate through a world designed to meet the needs and convenience people, rather than by the characteristics of the able-bodied can marginalize people who are not able-bodied, of the individual, affecting their physical, social, political and financial well-being.14 and Bronfenbrenner (Knestricht & Kuchey, 2009). [...] Bronfenbrenner envisioned a system of ‘nested’ environments that existed within each other with the metaphor of the model being that the environments or ‘ecologies’ exist within each other [and are] constantly interacting with each other…So that the ‘’home’ as ecology cannot help but be affected by the ecologies of the community, the country and the geo-political ecologies that surround it.