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October 18, 2013

By Sandra Joy SteinWhen my son was two yearsold, he played like most toddlers I've known. He built block towers and yelledin frustration ...

October 4, 2013

In May 2012 my son was approved for funding for a laptop at school. The desktop computer he previously had at school was so old that it d...

October 8, 2013

Everyone knows Carly Fleischmann, the Toronto teen with autism who was unreachable until she typed a message on a computer at age 10. Her...

October 13, 2013

By Nikki CochraneI never thought that at 24-years-old I'd be a mother to seven children with special needs, but that is exactly where lif...

October 2, 2013

Holland Bloorview is marking World Cerebral Palsy Day with a demo of the Cycle to Fun project that combines exercise bikes and a virtual ...

November 21, 2013

I remember when my son was still a baby, a psychiatrist told me that I needed to play a "PR role" in how I introduced him to others. He s...

November 4, 2013

By KateWilsonIn mymid-20s, my father suffered a serious heart attack. One of the things he wasprescribed to help in his recovery and deal...

November 15, 2013

Does being smarter make you happier? Not necessarily, says Dr. Evdokia Anagnostou, a childneurologist and clinician scientist in the Auti...

November 13, 2013

Last year Sue Robins wrote an anonymous BLOOM piece about her son's deteriorating school situation. "I see now that I felt I had to be an...

November 26, 2013

Donna Kirk is the author of FindingMatthew: A Child with Brain Damage, A Young Man with Mental Illness, A Son andBrother with Extraordina...