A family’s struggle to care for their son’s autism reveals the gaps in mental health parity laws - USA TODAY

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Amit Kumar and his wife, Charu, were blissfully happy with their “perfect” 2-year-old son when a social worker told them something was amiss. Ray couldn’t follow a finger pointing across the room.

As time went on, he had speech delays and severe social anxiety, got upset by loud noises and spent hours alone in a closet – classic symptoms of autism. They waited a year to see a Virginia developmental pediatrician who made the diagnosis official and recommended 40 hours a week of the gold-standard treatment, a labor-intensive therapy known as Applied Behavior Analysis.

source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/02/13/mental-health-parity-laws-familys-struggle-reveals-insurance-gaps/6734457001/

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