Hello Friends, it's a long post but I tried to share maximum information I found so read and reply.
I read full thread from page 1 to 8 and found posts on children medical issues since 2012 to 2020.
We applied 3 months ago for PR under SINP paper based category when our one child was just 1 month old. On a routine checkup of baby at the age of 3 months pediatriton diagnosed baby is having no eye contact and social Smile that could be the early signs of many disorders or disabilities e.g. Cerebral Palsy, Autism, ADHD, Epilepsy, etc. But it's to early to diagnose the right problem.
We are expecting our medicals in December 2020 to Feb 2021 and our child will be almost 12 to 14 months old at that time. I think New law ammendments in 2018 are specifically for disabled dependent children of immigrants and threshold limit enhanced from $665 to$102,585 over 5 years (or $20,517 per year) . I was wondering how The Centralized Medical Admissibility Unit assess the expected cost of any child's health and social services in comparison of current threshold.
I found two documents so far one for Cerebral Palsy and second for Autism.
In 2011 a legal review case was filed in High Court Canada and in detailed reply to court Immigration Medical Examination department submitted expected cost breakup of 3 years old moderate to sewear cerebral palsy disordered child having very visible disabilities physical and psychological. Following is the complete para of the the officer.
"The IME Summary identified the following estimates of specific costs of services that Jordan would likely require: (i) participation in an Early Intervention Program for three years ($20,250); (ii) special education costs once he reached school age ($112,000); (iii) respite care over a 10-year period ($24,000); (iv) wheelchair costs ($6,500 to $8,000); and, (v) physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy."
In second reference that is the speech and instructions of immigration ministry he clearly addresses that autism disorder is no more bearer for kids to enter in Canada further he addresses that special educational cost is also excluded from the current threshold limits. That means if we consider the case 1 costs estimated by medical unit in 2012 special education cost was the major burden that is now exclude from the threshold.
Words of minister as follows:
After Monday’s announcement, Canada will no longer consider certain costs when deciding if someone can come to Canada – such as special education costs for children with intellectual disabilities. The government said it will also triple the cost threshold for denying someone based on medical conditions to nearly $20,000 a year.
In making the announcement, Hussen said Canada will no longer consider people with a disability as a “burden” when they apply to immigrate."
Hope it will help all of the pending applicants to calculate the urden cost of our kids according to current threshold limits.
In my particular case what's your opinion at the age of 1 year will medical officers take my kids's any delayed development very seriously as at the age of 1 year as all such expected disorders actually diagnosed minimum at the age of 2 years although symptoms can be observed earlier but again no doctor can conclude the final diagnosis at the age of 12 months. Waiting for your reply.