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Tales of kindness and contempt
How do you think you'd be treated if you were out and about in the city and blind?Recently I read media stories about two blind men and t...
Tim Rose and Magnet make the job search easier
Holland Bloorview has partnered with Magnet, an online employment platform, to bring together job-seekers with disabilities and employers...
Asha 'reshaped the way I look at the world'
I heard this amazing interview with Ron Buliung, a professor in transportation geography at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He's c...
School volunteer honours his daughter's memory
I first met Yoonus Mia in 2003. I'd bump into him in the hospital walking beside a child in a helmet, feet strapped onto the pedals of an...
Community keeps this volunteer coming back
After her daughter Elizabeth was diagnosed with global developmental delay, Jean Hammond immersed herself at Holland Bloorview as a famil...
Instead of changing her child, a mother changes herself
Superbabies Don't Cry is a brilliant essay about how the birth of a child with a chromosome deletion upended one mother's ideas about per...
Care for the family shouldn't stop when the child dies
When Bruno Geremia's son Matthew died two years ago, Bruno's sense of loss extended to the people he knew at Holland Bloorview during Mat...
Rana finds her voice in advocacy
By Rana Nasrazadani“You're not ready for university.”A staff member said this to me in high school, in front of the whole class. Thes...
From patient to bioethicist, Dolly comes full circle
I met Dolly Menna-Dack in 1999 when we interviewed her as a youth role model in BLOOM (then called Connections). At age three, Dolly, who...
'We can't fix what we don't know'
Kimberley Siu-Chong (centre) is Holland Bloorview's touchpoint for feedback from families. As client- and family-relations facilitator, s...
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