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.
It seemed a simple exercise. I was at Columbia University doing a a course for clinicians and writers on narrative medicine. In our small...
I'm often sent story pitches for what strike me as ridiculous products that in no way relate to parenting, let alone parenting children w...
Hanzhen Yap is a 16-year-old Malaysian artist with autism whose intricate sketches of historical buildings, animals and everyday objects ...
By Megan JonesIn the summer of 2013, Mindy Scheier was faced with a problem. Her son Oliver, then nine, wanted to wear jeans to school.Ol...
Look at this illustration of an elephant. I couldn't stop. I kept seeing in the detail things that I hadn't initially seen.This is on...
Becky Quinlan (top right) can't say enough about the benefits of Connect2care—a new secure portal that gives parents and kids access to...
In 2013 Connor Sparrowhawk (with sister Rosie) drowned in a bath alone in a National Health Services assessment and treatment unit in Oxf...
Meet Julia Hanigsberg, the new president and CEO of Holland Bloorview (in photo with daughter Rachel). Julia comes to us from Ryerson Uni...
‘Our Curse' tells the story of a Polish couple whose son Leo is born with a rare syndrome that prevents him from breathing while asleep...
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