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.'
A son's injury prompts a dad to give back
In 2011 Amir Karmali's son Kaylum was accidently kicked in the head during a soccer game. The next morning he couldn't walk and was hospi...
Red, green, blue? Every store wants one
When Luke Anderson graduated as a civil engineer in 2002 he moved from Ontario to British Columbia to pursue his passion: mountain biking...
The tales we spin about disability
Beyond the Pale is a new memoir about raising a child with albinism. It's written by Emily Urquhart, a Canadian folklorist and writer who...
BLOOM media roundup
Disabled by design Slate"We inhabit a culture that perpetuates the idea that disability lies in bodies rather than in design." Fascina...
What's in a name?
It seemed a simple exercise. I was at Columbia University doing a a course for clinicians and writers on narrative medicine. In our small...
My epic parenting fail
I'm often sent story pitches for what strike me as ridiculous products that in no way relate to parenting, let alone parenting children w...
For Hanzhen, life is in the detail
Hanzhen Yap is a 16-year-old Malaysian artist with autism whose intricate sketches of historical buildings, animals and everyday objects ...
Every kid deserves a pair of jeans
By Megan JonesIn the summer of 2013, Mindy Scheier was faced with a problem. Her son Oliver, then nine, wanted to wear jeans to school.Ol...
Take a look, then look again
Look at this illustration of an elephant. I couldn't stop. I kept seeing in the detail things that I hadn't initially seen.This is on...
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