BLOOM combines real family stories with the best expert advice, plus the latest news and opinion on disability.
A deaf girl writes about the pain and beauty of being different
The 12-year-old protagonist of a new book finds herself alienated from her family, who refuse to use sign language.
Why I can't be 'for' the 'SickKids vs' ad
Disability is personal. It's part of identity. When your child has significant disabilities, it becomes part of your identity too. Perhaps...
A Family Like Mine: Who should we feature next?
A Family Like Mine is a series of videos on diverse families raising children with disabilities. The photos above feature three of our fa...
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'...
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