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Read our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.
Without being disabled, 'we'd be someone different'
Autistic activist Mel Baggs has died. We share a comment she posted on BLOOM about how a disability is an essential part of a person's wholeness.
In CBC podcast, a dad searches for a cure that would allow his son to communicate
Unlocking Bryson's Brain is a new CBC podcast that follows a family's search for treatments that might reverse their son's rare genetic disorder.
Human equality, not 'cruelly cold rationality,' must underpin pandemic health plans, ethicist says
Ethicists, doctors call for the idea of human equality to guide our health response to COVID-19. 'Our judgments about who gets treatment should be based on whether the treatment is worthwhile, not on
Facts, routine, reassurance help kids manage fears about the pandemic
Barbara Fishbein Germon, a social worker with Holland Bloorview's child development program, talks about how parents can help their kids manage fears they may have about COVID-19.
'Crip Camp' introduces us to America's disability rights heroes
Camp Jened, a 1960s camp for disabled teens in upstate New York, spawned activists who would lead historic protests and sit-ins for disability rights in the 1970s.
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The monthly BLOOM e-letter contains our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive. Check out new books and events.
COVID-19 focus should be building intensive-care capacity, not 'who comes first' lists, ethicist says
Pandemic plans exclude people with certain disabilities from being triaged for a ventilator. COVID-19 efforts need to focus on creative ways to build our supply of ventilators and other intensive-care
Job 1: 'Making sure that people see Jacob as a person'
Jacob Trossman goes to high school and loves being out and about in Toronto. But the supports that allow him to live at home are thin. In this video, his family talks about that bind.
School's closed? Try these fun things to fill your child's day
Looking for stuff to do with your kids during the coronavirus school shutdowns? BLOOM parents share ideas and resources.
Canada requires a wheelchair headrest to be hidden in a passport photo. Why?
A Holland Bloorview client had a passport photo rejected because his wheelchair headrest was visible. We look at how Canada singles out disabled people with onerous passport photo requirements.
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