When Tatiana Ciudac found out in January that Medi-Cal benefits included childhood autism therapy, she was ecstatic.
Ciudac, originally from Moldova (near Ukraine) and now living in San Francisco, is the mother of a six-year-old boy with autism spectrum disorder. Her son had been getting a type of autism treatment called applied behavior analysis — known as ABA therapy — through a program at her child’s school. The ABA therapy ran out once he hit age five, though. Read more.