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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.
In 2012, 25 scientists from six countries came to the University of Toronto to talk about new ways of looking at rehabilitation for child...
A few year's back it was suggested to me that a great co-op placement for my son was to work in a school separating the garbage and recyc...
Yesterday I read a fascinating feature in WIRED called An Alternative-Medicine Believer's Journey Back to Science.It chronicles the story...
By Jessica GeboersCanadian parenting expert Ann Douglas spoke with BLOOM about her new book Parenting Through the Storm—a collection of...
It's not often you hear fathers of children with disabilities talk candidly about their child's diagnosis and how they reacted emotionall...
When you hear the word ‘wheelchair,' what comes to mind?Is it scary and confining, or liberating, fun and even glamorous?Yesterday I re...
By Megan JonesLuke Terrell tells his friend Gabe Weil's story like this: By the time he reached his mid-20s, Gabe (above second from righ...
As a parent, how do you define compassionate care? Have you ever broken down when describing something troubling about your child and the...
By Megan Jones In February, 23-year-old occupational therapy student Anna-Lena Burdick arrived in Toronto from the Netherlands for a 14-w...
Last year at an American conference on patient/clinician communication, Holland Bloorview family support specialist Lorraine Thomas parti...
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