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.'
While in hospital, Fiaz creates bright, bold, energetic art
Fiaz Rahman has had a rough six months. The 18-year-old developed a pressure injury in August that prevented him from going to school for...
'I like a nurse who's caring, sometimes funny, always positive'
Justin Chau is an 11-year-old inpatient at Holland Bloorview. He's writing a story about his life following a surgery to remove a brain t...
Doctors need to get comfortable with intellectual disability
Global developmental delay (GDD) isn't a long-term diagnosis, write two doctors in a commentary piece this week in The Journal of Pediatr...
What works in children's rehab, and why, is researcher's passion
De-Lawrence Lamptey has a PhD in rehabilitation science and a master's degree in clinical psychology. He has right-sided weakness related...
With Aicam on the case, hospitalized kids have fun
Aicam Chuong has been a nurse at Holland Bloorview for over 30 years—first as a student, then working with children hospitalized here w...
Retarded, imbecile, morons. Why does The New York Times still use these words?
I could hardly believe my eyes when this New York Times piece popped into my feed yesterday: Donald Trump and his Team of Morons.Way back...
Adults with cerebral palsy at higher risk for depression, anxiety
Mathias Castaldo is a member of Holland Bloorview's youth advisory and participated in our Dear Everybody campaign to end disability stig...
Why a new face-scanning genetics app worries me
Photo in Nature, by Michael Ares/The Palm Beach Post via ZUMA. This girl has Cornelia de Lange syndrome, a condition with distinct facial...
'What you learn about silence is that it's not so quiet'
Craig Morgan Teicher is an American poet and literary critic whose first collection of essays—We Begin in Gladness—was published in November.
This nurse earns high praise from kids
Lisa Drumonde is a registered practical nurse working with children who are hospitalized at Holland Bloorview for rehab after painful bone surgeries or life-changing trauma.
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