BLOOM combines real family stories with the best expert advice, plus the latest news and opinion on disability.
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BLOOM combines real family stories with the best expert advice, plus the latest news and opinion on disability.
Read our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.
Long-time Holland Bloorview client and elite swimmer Nydia Langill lit the Parapan Am Games torch last night in Mississauga. I met Nydia ...
Earlier this year I received a message from a parent in Hungary: “We are a group of parents from Hungary who raise special-needs childr...
By Jessica Geboers“Ooh / There is a camp I know/ and it lies on the Rideau / and they call it Merrywood / and you know, they really sho...
By Stephanie Ly Our daughter Pepper will turn four this year, and though she's not your average four-year-old, she'll start kindergarten i...
By Laura WilliamsLast weekend, my family decided to take the ultimate road trip to New York City. The idea started about five months ago ...
It's shameful that the death of Guy Mitchell (left), an adult with disabilities who drowned after falling into a cistern at an Ontario-fu...
By Emma OckermanI've had this conversation 50 times already. I stand on my front porch as my hand just brushes the brass-plated door knob...
By Melissa NgoI was taught that I was the expert. The “go-to” person. As the sister of someone with autism, I was the translator, the...
This morning my son and I visited an arts program at L'Arche Toronto. Sol Express runs two programs during the year: One is for actors w...
By Jessica GeboersWhen I was little I pushed my red and blue kitchen booster seat around the floor on my tall knees, pretending it was a ...
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