BLOOM combines real family stories with the best expert advice, plus the latest news and opinion on disability.
Workshop explores tensions between clinicians and parents
'They said they were trained to be hyper-positive, but sometimes the parent isn’t in that space. Often there is a big, gaping hole of despair that no one wants to look at.'
Parents at centre of online training to bring Zoey Faith home
Home.It's Thunder Bay, and it's where Amanda Mintenko has always wanted to care for her 15-month-old daughter Zoey Faith—along with bro...
'I loved my grief because that was my brother'
Family Life by Akhil Sharma is a semi-autobiographical novel about a family's journey to two new worlds.In 1978 the Mishra family from De...
'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 ...
What does IQ have to do with happiness?
I'm a little stumped.I read this piece called Genetic screening to enhance IQ should be embraced in The Conversation. In it, an ethicist ...
The father of invention
Eric Sherman's son Cole loves to swim. But he has cochlear implants and needs to wear expensive waterproof processors attached to a headp...
Ontario, MaRS pose citizen-centred housing challenge
Two years ago we had the assessment necessary for getting an adult with an intellectual disability onto the list for community services, ...
Anne Geddes finds a new focus: 'deceptive strength'
Today is World Meningitis Day and Australian photographer Anne Geddes (right) is launching an e-book of photos of children from around th...
Two solitudes
In the last couple of days I've seen parents argue for two radically different visions of how to educate children with disabilities.In th...
Why are disabled teens more likely to be alone?
Life skills staff at Holland Bloorview presented their early findings from a review of 56 studies on friendship for youth with disabiliti...
I am warrior mom: Hear me cry and roar
By D. Christine BrownItwas the morning of our son Lucas's 10th EEG since his acute brain inflammation in September 2011 and subsequent au...
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