About the helping children with autism package - Alex has been 'approved' for that, but the speech therapist he sees is still waiting on approval before she can use it for us. I don't want to start again with another one, and she's close and works with a child psych. as well (who I have to make an appointment with).

She said it has been eight weeks since they sent their application in.

Can you get OT under the ... what is it called ... the mental health care plan ?

Get onto the carers payment or allowence. Centrelink sent out SEVEN forms when I rang them about it last year. I told them I couldn't get the carers payment as I get a parenting payment, but they sent that and other forms out that I did not need. At that time, the paed. we had seen wrote 'mild ASD' on it and Alex had had a hearing test and the community health OT said he had SPD.