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How 'there's a new rule' broke me
Hoops. This is another story about the unnecessary hoops people with disabilities and their families are forced tojump through to get gov...
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It's the little things, like shoes
A year ago I bought my son two pairs of the same New Balance training shoe—one in white and one in black. A colleague had recommended i...
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A cousin's memory fuels this Kenyan trainee
Susan Wamithi grew up in Nairobi, Kenya. But her medical studies have taken her from Alabama to Grenada to England to Nairobi to Toronto....
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thoughts that live in the hole in my brain
LexinZhang is a 17-year-old student participating in Holland Bloorview's Youth@Work program.This is a poem she wrote about having cerebra...
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'We laugh, we encourage each other, and there's no judging'
Photos by Chelsea DeeIn 2013, BLOOM covered a unique sewing project in Maai Mahiu, northwest of Nairobi, that was changing the lives of K...
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A social worker who's lived the other side of rehab
'They tell me that it's different working with me'Gabriella Carafa is a social worker whose connection to Holland Bloorview goes back to ...
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Hotel helps kids with autism feel at home
A small Newfoundland coastal town is home to Canada's first autism-friendly hotel.Hotel Port aux Basques offers a fully-equipped sensory ...
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It's 2017, and speech technology is still primitive
I like our Dear Everybody campaign because the messages, like this one above, are real, and come from our children and families.Most peop...
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Parenting as a grandmother: 'You're so much wiser'
At age 63, Marna-Rose Minett has raised two children. Now she's raising a third—her granddaughter Rayne, 7, who has cerebral palsy and...
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‘Patient 357’ inspires project to mourn unnamed asylum dead
Photos by Anne ZbitnewA Stitch in Time: Mourning the Unnamed is a research and art project that honours the children and adults who lived...
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