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Finding the music in everyone
The other day I posted a call for story ideas on the BLOOM Facebook page. Karen Bojti wrote: “Another ‘out of the box' person I have...
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Struggling to hang on? Parents share tips for coping with anxiety
'Colouring and terrible reality shows are my go-to during hospital stays or when things are especially rough.'
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Strengthening belonging and inclusion
Honouring Holocaust Remembrance Day and the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack
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A sister's story fuels this scientist
Krissy Doyle-Thomas is a neuroscientist at Holland Bloorview. She's studying whether a brain-imaging tool that detects blood oxygen level...
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I worked in kids' rehab, but I didn't 'get it' till my son had autism
By Tracey McGillivrayThe day I started my job at Bloorview Children's Hospital over 20 years ago, I read Welcome to Holland by Emily Perl...
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Holland Bloorview launches Dear Everybody campaign to end stigma for young Canadians with disabilities
It's time: Kids and young adults with disabilities raise their voices to challenge disability stigma‘Dear Everybody' is the start of a ...
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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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Are you a special-needs parent? Dream, fail, do it again!
When my son was about two-and-a-half, I called a family support line at Holland Bloorview and the kind voice at the end of the line was J...
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'Disability was home:' From big sister to anthropologist
By Liz LewisThere's an old adage among anthropologists that you have to spend time in another culture to truly understand your own.As an ...
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