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'The biggest thing is just... the joy'
We're excited to share our new A Family Like Mine video! This one features Joanne Downing and her husband Mark, and their children Katherine, Matthew and Andrew.
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Why parents get hooked on 'normal'
On Friday I did a narrative workshop with developmental pediatrician and psychology fellows at Holland Bloorview. 
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Her son's stroke puts a Nunavut doctor on the other side of care
Family doctor Madeleine Cole works at a 25-bed hospital in Iqaluit doing emergency medicine and delivering babies. She also flies in to remote Nunavut villages to run clinics for the largely Inuit population. But last year, Madeleine found herself on the receiving end of medicine. During an idyllic…
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How vulnerable brains find workarounds is this scientist's passion
Dr. Tomáš Paus is fascinated by brains—not individual brains, but the study of hundreds of thousands of them. As a neuroscientist, he studies how our genes, and our physical and social environments growing up, influence our brains.
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Meet Karmzah, a heroine with cerebral palsy and super powers
Farida Bedwei is a Ghanaian software engineer who's launching a new comic book with a super hero who has a disability. Farida, who has cerebral palsy, loved comics as a child, but never saw any characters who looked like her. So she created Karmzah, a no-nonsense warrior whose crutches give…
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'My Beijing' is about the adventures of a girl and her grandfather
My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder is a gorgeous watercolour children's book by Nie Jun that was released in September. 
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Virginia Wright appointed as the Bloorview Children's Hospital Foundation Chair in Paediatric Rehabilitation
After an extensive recruitment process, Virginia Wright, Senior Scientist at the Bloorview Research Institute, has been appointed the Blo...
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Lived experience 'helps me go to the darker places with families'
Holland Bloorview social worker Val Lusted has spent almost 20 years working with youth with brain injuries caused by illness or trauma, and those hospitalized for rehab after bone surgeries or spinal-cord injury.
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U of T course makes room for kids who grow 'sideways'
A couple of years ago I connected with Anne McGuire, an assistant professor in the Equity Studies Program at the University of Toronto, after she co-wrote a critique of the Hospital for Sick Children's SickKids VS ad from a disability perspective. 
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Why silence is golden after doctors express empathy
Every day, doctors in children’s hospitals meet with parents to talk about life and death medical decisions. It may be whether to surgically create a hole in a child’s windpipe to place a breathing tube, whether to remove a life-sustaining ventilator, or whether to proceed with a high-risk medical…
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