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Today we met a real, live tooth fairy
I wanted to share a quick personal story.My son was seen in dentistry for years at Holland Bloorview and SickKids. He has some problems w...
Lisa Boivin paints stories about medical ethics beyond words
Lisa Boivin is a member of the Deninu K'ue First Nation in the Northwest Territories. She paints image-based stories that explore the gap...
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...
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...
Six years later, a mom embraces life with her son's brain injury
By D. BrownWow! How time flies! Another “back to school” season is upon us. Six years ago, our healthy two-year-old son was hospitali...
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 ...
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 ...
This mom broke the social isolation of autism
Charlie Castro is a happy, social 7-year-old who loves elevators, math and reading. But his autism makes it impossible to filter out the ...
‘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...
a love letter to the one i work to forget
Last week we ran a poem called thoughts that live in the hole of my brain by 17-year-old Lexin Zhang. “When I was young, I thought abou...
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