JASPER, which stands for the Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Engagement and Regulation Program, comprises 24 sessions, offered once or twice a week. The Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre in the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's is one place that offers JASPER program sessions. Ontario launched a series of four programs to help children with autism in that province around the same time in 2016, including the JASPER program. As of August, roughly 50 additional clinicians were in training, and 54 children were actively receiving JASPER treatment, according to Eastern Health. Some staff are still being trained, while others have reached "fidelity," meaning they are fully equipped to use the JASPER program.

Source: CBC News March 27, 2019 15:30 UTC