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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.
In The Boy in the Moon, author Ian Brown uses the term 'pinpoints of light' to describe how moments of grace and love could relieve the d...
Childrenwith disabilities are two to four times more likely to be overweight,and two to four times less likely to be physically active, t...
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Here Dr. Brian Goldman describes a "slow code" or "Hollywood code," when doctors are slow to respond to a "code blue" that signals a pati...
By Kevin VieiraWhether sitting at the piano, strumming a guitar or drumming with whatever he can get his hands on, my son Joseph (above) ...
Silvia Guido blogs about Toronto restaurants, bars and music venues that meet her 30-item checklist for accessibility.The physiotherapist...
By Sandra Joy SteinThenote announcing picture day came home in my son's school folder.“Wow,”I thought. “Look how far we've come.”...
On Monday I got home just as D'Arcy and Ben were walking up the 26 steps to our house. Ben, who had just got off his bus, was wearing his...
Northern Irish composer Deirdre Gribbin has produced over 50 works—from orchestral music to her opera Hey Persephone!—that have been ...
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