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A girl who wanted to disappear becomes 'The Pretty One'
Keah Brown is an American writer working on a book called The Pretty One, which is a collection of essays about living as a disabled woma...
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'It's not what you see, but how you see it'
Earlier this month NPR interviewed amputee and palliative-care doctor BJ Miller about his new book 'A Beginner's Guide to the End.' We are republishing BLOOM's 2012 interview with BJ, about acquiring his disabilities as a young man.
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'I come from a family of nurses'
Caroline Ivorra (left) is a registered nurse on Holland Bloorview's brain injury rehab team. She works with children who are hospitalized...
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How one Toronto woman with a disability survives our winter
Snow and ice mean frequent falls for Jessica Geboers. Here are some tips the writer uses to cope with Canada's winter.
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Including disability in the picture: one book at a time
When Danielle was looking for books with characters with disabilities, she could barely find any. She decided to change that.
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Henry starts school
Columbia University professor Rachel Adams is the author of the just released Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Disc...
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'I've always been able to push myself'
Ade Adepitan (right) is a British Paralympic basketballmedal-winner, an actor and a filmmaker whose documentary Journey of My Lifetime to...
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For parents of preemies, rehab is a confusing 'new world'
Children's rehab is “a whole new world” fraught with stress and confusion for parents of preemies who are moving on from neonatal int...
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Good care? It starts with R-E-S-P-E-C-T, student says
Emily Chan, 19, has come full circle.This summer she's a researcher in the Ward Family Summer Student Program at Holland Bloorview.As a U...
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After trauma, parents need space to 'fall apart emotionally'
Say the word ‘trauma’ among parents of kids with complex medical problems and disabilities, and the floodgates open.
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