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The balancing act: Children's rehab is about truth and hope
Dr. Anne Kawamura is a developmental pediatrician inHolland Bloorview's child development program, working with children withcerebral pal...
This mom is a lifeline for inpatient parents
In 2006, Lies Ferriman's 15-year-old son Sasha sustained a severe braininjury while snowboarding. He was in a coma for 10 days and spent ...
This hospital trains and hires students with disabilities
Project Search partners with businesses, schools and community agencies to run nine-month skills training programs for high school studen...
Mice are key players in study of autism drugs
Holland Bloorview and SickKids have received $2.5 million from Brain Canada to conduct a five-year trial of new autism medicines in child...
Shattered dreams
A few things collided in my mind this morning.First I read this exquisite essay by Michael Bérubé about his son Jamie's search for work...
Filmmaker Kelly O'Brien on grief, siblings and honesty
A recent BLOOM night focused on filmmaker Kelly O'Brien and a screening of Softening, her film about raising her son Teddy, who was born ...
A refuge for parents caring for kids in hospital
Once a week Claire Stoten sits on a meditation cushion and focuses on her breathing. “It forces me to stop doing all of the jobs—the ...
The player
There is a tall, gangly teen on the basketball court outside my window.He carries his right forearm up, his arm bent at a 90-degree angle...
The trove of other mothers
Sandra Stein's life was upended when her healthy toddler fell ill with an autoimmune encephalitis, a condition in which the immune system a...
Let's play 20 questions
By Cheryl PetersLast week with my daughter Jillian at my side a store clerk asked: "Can I ask what's wrong with her?" Seems like an hones...
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