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BLOOM combines real family stories with the best expert advice, plus the latest news and opinion on disability.
Read our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.
Laura Oxenham-Murphy is the interim director of Quality, Safety and Performance at Holland Bloorview. Laura first thought about improving...
Ontario adults with developmental disabilities are nearly four times more likely to die early than their non-disabled peers, and fare wor...
Last month York University researcher Nazilla Khanlou presented results on a study of black mothers with children with developmental disa...
Victoria Rombos has worked in Holland Bloorview's Ronald McDonald playroom as an early childhood studies student, then volunteer, and now...
Sarah Jama is a co-founder of the Disability Justice Network of Ontario. She has a long history of disability rights and anti-racism acti...
Utah women with autism were over three times more likely to die by suicide than their peers without autism between 2013 and 2017, accordi...
Fiaz Rahman has had a rough six months. The 18-year-old developed a pressure injury in August that prevented him from going to school for...
Justin Chau is an 11-year-old inpatient at Holland Bloorview. He's writing a story about his life following a surgery to remove a brain t...
Global developmental delay (GDD) isn't a long-term diagnosis, write two doctors in a commentary piece this week in The Journal of Pediatr...
De-Lawrence Lamptey has a PhD in rehabilitation science and a master's degree in clinical psychology. He has right-sided weakness related...
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