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January 20, 2015

Yikes.The Canadian winter is treacherous for youth who use wheelchairs or walkers finds a Holland Bloorview study published in Disability...

January 26, 2015

Tommy (in orange shirt) and Martin Tobon (foreground) are nine-year-old twins.Martin likes building Legos. Tommy prefers to swim. But he ...

January 27, 2015

By Jennifer Philp ZakicI have a confession: whenever I enter a new place, I scan the room for signs of infection. I look for runny noses,...

January 8, 2015

Wheel Dance is a Canadian non-profit hoping to bring ballroom dancing classes to children with disabilities.“It's a great physical work...

February 8, 2015

This is Katie Hebert with her doll with a stomach feeding tube and brother Nathan. "We heated up a skewer and used it to melt a hole in t...

February 3, 2015

Looking for an interesting read? Check out the disability and parenting stories we've collected recently. But first, I'd like to introduc...

February 17, 2015

Becky Quinlan (top right) can't say enough about the benefits of Connect2care—a new secure portal that gives parents and kids access to...

February 5, 2015

In January I wrote about Melissa Shang, a girl who at age 10 got 150,000 people to sign a petition asking American Girl to release a doll...

February 6, 2015

Check out this video of Rick Mercer spending a day at Variety Village, the fitness and sports club in Scarborough, Ont. for people with a...

February 20, 2015

By Megan JonesIn the summer of 2013, Mindy Scheier was faced with a problem. Her son Oliver, then nine, wanted to wear jeans to school.Ol...