BLOOM combines real family stories with the best expert advice, plus the latest news and opinion on disability.
Mother fights anti-Black bias in autistic daughter's care
'What I was coming up against in the health-care system was not being heard, not being valued, not being seen and acknowledged.'
Parent finds refuge in art and understanding
'It's calming, and even though my problems may still be there, for a couple of hours I can take a break.'
Seeing blindness in a new way
Andrew Leland looks at blindness as a culture, from a historical perspective, and in relation to medicine and technology.
Conveying a patient's value can be healing, scientist says
Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov hopes his research will shift medical culture from a need to ‘fix’ patients to a commitment to “be with, to not abandon, to value.'
Group home residents bore the brunt of pandemic isolation. It can't happen again
Confining residents to apartments with no physical contact with family, other residents or the outdoors violated human rights, a Norwegian study finds.
Clothing brand keeps medically fragile children in mind
Bottom-up onesies for babies and iron-on G-tube patches are popular with parents of little ones who use ventilators and feeding tubes.
This therapist and mom knows a lot about disability and mental health
When a child is 'brought up to strive to be different from who they fundamentally are, it wreaks havoc with their psychological, emotional and social development.'
Artist gives hospitalized kids a sense of agency
You may have noticed Shannon with her mobile art cart filled with paint, clay, fabric, beads, wood and all of the tools that allow kids to create projects at the bedside.
Disabled, racialized med students face highest rates of burnout
'If you have multiple disabilities and you’re Asian or Black or Hispanic or identify as Indigenous, then your risk of burnout is even higher than that of white students with multiple disabilities.'
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