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Doctors' disbelief is a common response to rare disease
Laura Howson-Strong is an occupational therapist at Holland Bloorview who has worked with children with disabilities at two ends of the s...
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Rude words from doctors and parents harm care
In 2015, a team of Israeli researchers studied the impact ofrude comments by another doctor on medical teams while they did a simulationo...
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A face is only part of the story
Producer and photographer Tanya Workman, right, with Charlene Guenette. Tanya interviewed and took photos of Charlene for The Difference ...
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'No brother or sister should grow up thinking I'm the only one'
Last year Dutch journalist Anjet van Dijken published the Brothers and Sisters Book, a first in Holland for siblings of children with dis...
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It's the little things, like shoes
A year ago I bought my son two pairs of the same New Balance training shoe—one in white and one in black. A colleague had recommended i...
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Changing the stories we tell about disability and families
Recently BLOOM reported on research about the role of hope and the invisibility of dads in children's rehab. This was produced by Parenti...
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'Life is worth living in all sorts of bodies and minds'
'I was not simply Jason's brother and often his caretaker. Jason was my best friend and the joy of being able to have him in my life is completely irreplaceable.'
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Beauty can be slow to reveal itself
'I feel an affinity with difficult beauty because with a disability your worth, your value in the world, is not so easily seen by other people.'
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BRI Quarterly: October 2023
October 2023 (covers news, announcements and happenings from July to September 2023)
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Walgreen proves the business case for hiring 'disabled' staff
In 2006 Randy Lewis changed the way Walgreen Co. does business. As senior vice-president of supply chain and logistics for the U.S. drug sto...
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