Waiting list getting longer each year?

Sad state of affairs for children with ASD and their families in Ontario, judging by the statistics in this article published on April 2. "The wait for autism services in Ontario is getting worse, and fed-up parents are threatening peaceful civil disobedience to force the government to be accountable to their kids.
There are 1,478 children province-wide waiting for intensive behavioural intervention therapy—a proven strategy that works best in a child’s preschool years. Another 362 kids are waiting for assessments."
Read more at http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/familyhealth/children'shealth/article/789412--fed-up-parents-push-for-action-on-autism-services
The wait list for government-sponsored Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI)therapy seems to grow longer each year in this province. Placed on the list back in Feb. 2009, my six-year-old son still waits and will be waiting for another two years, we're told. So, what do we do while we wait for the service? Are there support services available which would help parents deal take care of their ASD child in the meantime? So far, it's been a year and 2 months since the placement and almost 2 years from the actual diagnosis and so far, no other services has kicked in yet. So, the wait continues for a service that might not even be effective for my son at eight and a half. This, however, does not mean that I have been simply waiting twiddling my thumb. Our family has been pouring so much effort on our own on his intervention both at home and school since his diagnosis in 2008 and I am happy to report that he is today a high-functioning child attending a regular classroom. But he's still a child who needs professional help and the lenght of the waiting period to get that kind of help for him is unbearably and meaninglessly long. I quite understand and emphatize the feeling of the parents cited in this article. I feel tired of it all too!