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Food, film and adventure are on Julian's to-do list
Julian relies on two “support friends” to hang out at restaurants, go to events, and volunteer.
Drug cuts weight gain in autistic kids who take antipsychotics
Weight gain is a dangerous side effect of antipsychotics used to treat severe irritability and aggression in some children with autism.No...
Disabled? Own it, says keyboardist Casey Harris
Renegades isn't your typical music video: It's about disabled people doing the thingsthey love.This summer American indie rock band X Amb...
On World CP Day, recognizing a 'mama bear'
When Roma Bennett's son Joshua was only two weeks old, she had to return to work. That meant working till 3, then going downtown to care ...
How one family's dream of a service dog came true
By Kara Melissa SharpI knew Sebastian needed a dog when he was two. He was recovering from pneumonia in hospital, and we hadn't seen him ...
I can't catch up
A month ago I decided I couldn't keep adding things to my to-do list. I wanted to spend more time with my son learning and modelling how...
Disability in verse
We shared a poem by 16-year-old inpatient Maddy Workman (left) a few weeks ago. She'd spent five months at Holland Bloorview doing rehab ...
Make work? Families still face too much of it
A couple of weeks ago a story with this headline appeared in The Toronto Star: Easier path to cash for adults, kids with disabilities.It ...
'Advocacy is draining:' A reader responds
A couple of weeks ago we launched the latest in our A Family Like Mine video series: 'The children that we have... they're just as human'...
In Paul's class, 'a friend is a friend, regardless of... abilities'
Paul Alcamo is a veteran at Holland Bloorview. He joined the hospital in 1987 as a recreation therapist and later became a teacher in our...
In Brazil, a 'disabled chick' draws about stigma, love
On her blog, Vanessa Krubniki tags this comic under "love," writing: "...I have worried myself sick about how I am supposed to convince s...
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