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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.
This is Katie Hebert with her doll with a stomach feeding tube and brother Nathan. "We heated up a skewer and used it to melt a hole in t...
Check out this video of Rick Mercer spending a day at Variety Village, the fitness and sports club in Scarborough, Ont. for people with a...
In January I wrote about Melissa Shang, a girl who at age 10 got 150,000 people to sign a petition asking American Girl to release a doll...
Looking for an interesting read? Check out the disability and parenting stories we've collected recently. But first, I'd like to introduc...
By Marcy WhiteI hate Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD). On March 21, 2003, I was told that PMD was the cause of my son Jacob's many med...
By Jennifer Philp ZakicI have a confession: whenever I enter a new place, I scan the room for signs of infection. I look for runny noses,...
Tommy (in orange shirt) and Martin Tobon (foreground) are nine-year-old twins.Martin likes building Legos. Tommy prefers to swim. But he ...
Very high stress levels in 17 per cent of Canadians who care for a child or adult with a health condition or disability was flagged as a ...
“I sit here and think ‘How did I get so lucky?'” says Susan Day Fragiadakis, a research assistant in Holland Bloorview's Autism Res...
Yikes.The Canadian winter is treacherous for youth who use wheelchairs or walkers finds a Holland Bloorview study published in Disability...
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Content in BLOOM is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always consult your doctor. Views expressed in posts and resources listed do not signify endorsement by Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. The BLOOM blog welcomes comments from readers on issues that affect parents of children with disabilities. All comments require approval to ensure they’re on-topic and respectful. We don’t post comments that attack people or organizations or use profanity or hate speech.
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