Over the years, ASO has fought hard for the rights of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to obtain a free and appropriate public education and to pressure schools to accept their mandates under IDEA.
Autism Scholarship Program
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Ohio's Autism Scholarship Program is a program of the Ohio Department of Education (ODE). The program allows ODE to pay a scholarship to the parents of a qualified child with autism. Through the scholarship, parents have a choice of seeking services for their child with a registered private provider, rather than the child's resident school district to receive the services outlined in the child's individualized education program (IEP).
Statistics on the Autism Scholarship Program 
The ASO is currently neutral on the Autism Scholarship Program. Although the ASP was a recommend ation of the Ohio Autism Task Force in which ASO participated,
What ASO supports about the Autism Scholarship:
