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  <name>Estimates Committee A - Answers to Questions</name>
  <date date="2009-07-03T00:00:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>51</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>3</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Estimates Committee A - Answers to Questions</house>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Autism Waiting Lists</name>
      <text id="20090703ac4de4acec5747e190000230">
        <heading>AUTISM WAITING LISTS</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="1804" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Ms CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Bragg</electorate>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
          </portfolio>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2009-07-03">
            <name>AUTISM WAITING LISTS</name>
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        <text id="20090703ac4de4acec5747e190000231">In reply to <by role="member" id="1804">Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition)</by> (29 June 2009).</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="614" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.M. RANKINE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Wright</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Families and Communities</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Northern Suburbs</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Housing</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Ageing</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Disability</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2009-07-03">
            <name>AUTISM WAITING LISTS</name>
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        <text id="20090703ac4de4acec5747e190000232">
          <by role="member" id="614">The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Families and Communities, Minister for Northern Suburbs, Minister for Housing, Minister for Ageing, Minister for Disability):</by>  Children who require diagnostic assessments for Autism Spectrum Disorders can access these from various providers: Autism SA; private practitioners such as psychologists, speech therapists, paediatricians and psychiatrists; and via public health services such as the Child Development Units at the Women's and Children's Hospital, the Lyell McEwin Hospital and the Child Assessment Team at Flinders Medical Centre.</text>
        <text id="20090703ac4de4acec5747e190000233">There is not a single waiting list for diagnostic assessments for Autism Spectrum Disorders for children and waiting times vary between services and practitioners.</text>
      </talker>
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