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.'
What needs fixing? Disabled people? Or a built world that shuts them out?
'The desire to see technological development and fixing as THE solution to disability allows people to continue to build and justify a world that is inaccessible...'
Disabled parents can teach other moms and dads a thing or two
'A lot of non-disabled parents are always moving and busy and distracted. I appreciate my stillness as a parent.'
This film about twin brothers has an ableist lens that lacks imagination
I wanted to love this short documentary on The New York Times. It's about twin boys, one with a disability, entering their teen years.
Why does a hospital need to know your race and income? To tailor care
'The general idea is that each of these identities and circumstances is predictive of the quality and speed of health-care access, experiences and outcomes.'
Puppet troupe helped drive disability inclusion in Ontario
'By using black light, we could hide the performers, because in the 1970s you had to hide people with disabilities.'
For days doctors dismissed dad's concern that his child was critically ill
This is a story about what happens when health workers listen to a child's parents, and what happens when they don't.
The hero of a new picture book is a girl in a red wheelchair
'How many books do we have where a non-verbal child who uses a wheelchair is the one who saves the day?'
Drawn to children's rehab nursing by a playful culture
'I've found working with families helps a great deal to identify how best to work with a child. They know the child's preferences and how to best communicate with them.'
Acceptance helped Alifa 'wake up to my child as he is right now'
A values-based therapy enabled this mom to let go of cultural expectations about who her autistic son should be.
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