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Does disability make you a less worthy transplant recipient?
Two little girls with genetic conditions that include intellectual disability needed a life-saving organ transplant.One, in Philadelphia,...
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Everything you want to know about siblings
Last year Dutch journalist Anjet van Dijken publishedthe Brothers and Sisters Book, a first inHolland for siblings of children with disab...
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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 ...
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Know the Night is about a mother's isolation
Maria Mutch is awake. It's 3 a.m., or maybe 4, she's not sure—she can barely tell the difference anymore. She wanders the halls of her ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The wave
Remember that quote: "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things?"Well, here's one of...
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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...
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Gabrielle steals the show
By Megan JonesGabrielle Marion-Rivard doesn't enter a room. She arrives. Underneathher thick mop of curly brown hair the actress's eyes a...
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