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 child's gifts and passions are more important than any label
Temple Grandin: 'The problem is that parents aren't looking at the whole child.'
Emily Ladau's new book makes the world of disability accessible
Demystifying Disability is a fabulous primer on disabled experiences that is both personal and far-reaching.
Holland Bloorview is training Ethiopia's first developmental pediatrician
'What you're doing here is the best in the world. I want to be in the best place and get the best possible knowledge.'
This critical-care doctor's perceptions of disability changed after her child was born with a brain injury
'By telling the story this way, clinicians can see themselves initially at the place I was and grow.'
At inclusive nursery school, 'the child is the star'
Play and Learn is about '"You can do it" and "I'll help you" and "Let's try together." It's a little slice of paradise.'
'There's no 911 for our families,' says mom of son on autism program waitlist
'For four years we've been passed along and that's how I ended up in Doug Ford's parking lot.'
A Friday night drop-in is a safe, fun space for dads of kids with autism
In addition to Americans and Canadians, the group has hosted fathers from South Africa, Australia, England and Japan.
Jordan's Principle makes disability services a right of First Nations children
'Children up to the age of 19 who live on- and off-reserve are eligible, and services are based on their unique needs, not what the province or territory usually provides.'
In humanistic approach, patients are agents of their own health care
'The client is recognized and acknowledged as the expert of their own lived experience...There's no giving advice.'
To adapt to disability, the community needs to change, not the child
'Instead of thinking about how individual capacity... resides in an individual, what about how everything outside an individual facilitates that person's interactions?'
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