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'Most of the time I feel like I’m being heard because I’m able to say the medical lingo. But not being heard is rampant for parents who don’t know medical language, and I feel for them.'
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It's on the list.My son's rare genetic deletion is on the list of disorders identified by microarray analysis of a fetus's DNA. It was a ...
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One of our staff is doing a workshop for parents on acceptance. She asked me for resources and I recommended these BLOOM pieces below. Bu...
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When her son Jordan was 10 days old, doctors told CherylRunstedler he was going to die. Jordan was born at 24 weeks weighing one-and-a-ha...
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Although funded for 19 nursing hours a day, Kayla Schultz's son can't attend school because there's no nurse to fill the day shift.
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Anjet van Dijken advises the Dutch government and researchers on how to support siblings of children with disabilities. She came to visit Holland Bloorview to learn how we made brothers and sisters an integral part of our approach to family-centred care.
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This piece by Susan Senator (centre), author of Making Peace With Autism and the Autism Mom's Survival Guide (for Dad's too!) touched me. Susan always writes with great honesty and insight about raising her son Nat (left)
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By Emily Urquhart My three-year-old daughter, Sadie, was getting her hair cut at a new salon. This would be enough to set any parent on e...
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Several years ago Chris Beesley wrote a BLOOM piece about how raising his son Mitchell, who has Fragile X and autism, had changed his lif...
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Gabriella Carafa is a social worker in our LIFEspan program with a long history at Holland Bloorview. Since she was a preschooler she's b...
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