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April 6, 2020

Tips for families living with autism during COVID-19 crisis: Holland Bloorview expert

Featuring Dr. Melanie Penner, a developmental pediatrician and expert on autism

Family Tipsheet: Emergency funding sources and access to basic necessities

This tipsheet provides a list of governmental and non-governmental emergency funds and supports for families, in situations where they may need help urgently to pay for or find basic necessities.

April 7, 2020

Human equality, not 'cruelly cold rationality,' must underpin pandemic health plans, ethicist says

Ethicists, doctors call for the idea of human equality to guide our health response to COVID-19. 'Our judgments about who gets treatment should be based on whether the treatment is worthwhile, not on whether the patient is "worthy" of treatment.'

April 8, 2020

In CBC podcast, a dad searches for a cure that would allow his son to communicate

Unlocking Bryson's Brain is a new CBC podcast that follows a family's search for treatments that might reverse their son's rare genetic disorder.

April 13, 2020

Without being disabled, 'we'd be someone different'

Autistic activist Mel Baggs has died. We share a comment she posted on BLOOM about how a disability is an essential part of a person's wholeness.

April 2, 2020

How COVID-19 is impacting families with children on the spectrum

Featured on globalnews.ca, CityNews Toronto and CTV News Toronto

The Virtual Music Teacher: Children of All abilities Banding Together in Early Childhood Music Education

Bootle Blast, a Movement Tracking Video Game for Home-Based Motor Therapy – Navigating Gaps to Market Readiness

Bootle Blast: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial