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November 1, 2016

My friend Kristen Huys has produced a candid, tender, illuminating video in which children talk about their brother or sister with a disa...

November 4, 2016

In 2013 Sharda Ali-Ramjattan moved from Trinidad to Toronto with her daughter Selina, 9, in order to access better health services. Her h...

November 22, 2016

How ironic that on the day Holland Bloorview research head Tom Chau encouraged us to "push against typifying perspectives" in our work, C...

November 21, 2016

One of our staff is doing a workshop for parents on acceptance. She asked me for resources and I recommended these BLOOM pieces below. Bu...

December 8, 2016

Dr. Melanie Penner is a developmental pediatrician at Holland Bloorview who focuses on autism. She's the person who gives parents a diagn...

December 5, 2016

Intensive behavioural therapy for autism is expensive—over $100,000 per child. In Ontario, the average child waits two-and-a-half years...

December 14, 2016

I'll never forget a time I went to visit a child in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). I was in the waiting room during a shift cha...

December 6, 2016

By Ron BishopOur son Neil is 14. He was diagnosed at a week old with cystic fibrosis. When he couldn't hold up his head or sit at age one...

January 25, 2017

Noah, 1, has blonde hair that stands up in exuberant spikes on his head. He loves to smile. When his dog licks his head, he giggles. If h...

January 20, 2017

Years ago I knew Osmond Shen as a student in our Bloorview School. He's now 19 and in Grade 12 and we caught up in an e-mail interview. I...