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'There's no 911 for our families,' says mom of son on autism program waitlist
'For four years we've been passed along and that's how I ended up in Doug Ford's parking lot.'
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For kids who use tech as their voice, Tracy's team delivers
'We serve 27 augmentative and alternative communication clinics across the province.'
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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.
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U of T docs say ridicule, yelling, rude emails a part of their world
A new study in Academic Medicine looks at uncivil behaviour among doctors—from eye rolling and open ridicule to yelling, throwing objects, sending unkind e-mails and posting disparaging social media comments. University of Toronto researchers interviewed 49 doctors who are faculty in U of T’s…
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‘Patient 357’ inspires project to mourn unnamed asylum dead
Photos by Anne ZbitnewA Stitch in Time: Mourning the Unnamed is a research and art project that honours the children and adults who lived...
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After a near drowning, a teen accepts she's 'a different person'
Recently, Holland Bloorview family therapist Caron Gan sent me this message:‘Yesterday I went to pick up a prescription at my local dru...
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In Lucy Jones' hands, disability and style are a perfect fit
Lucy Jones, 24, is described as one of the world's brightest entrepreneurs by Forbes Magazine. Forbes named her to its 2016 30 Under 30 l...
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Restraints, isolation routine for some disabled students in Manitoba
A survey of Manitoba parents that revealed frequent school use of physical restraints and isolation rooms for students with disabilities is 'hugely problematic' and 'shocking,' a researcher says.
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Clinicians who report low disability bias score high for ableism at an unconscious level
'There's a strong medical model in the United States that says disability is bad and sad.'
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Music helped this artist find her voice
'Children with disabilities, or who are hospitalized, don't have the same access to nature. Art is a way back in to being a human being in the world...'
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