BLOOM combines real family stories with the best expert advice, plus the latest news and opinion on disability.

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.
'To this day I'm still asking questions and there's no real set answers to a lot of the challenges we encounter.'
'I'm sorry, but your son's surgery has been cancelled.' The words are so unbelievable that at first they hang in the air, like icicles.
In a new Pediatrics study, American parents of children with disabilities said doctors discriminated against their children.
'I think empathy is one of the most important qualities in a physician.'
'If you're a parent to a disabled child the doctor has no time. It's in their bodies, in the way they come in the door, the way they leave.'
Read our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.
'If I was high risk in pregnancy, how does that disappear when I get home?'
AdoptOntario is looking for people who are 'open-hearted to supporting a child who is neurodivergent, and understand that adoption is a life-long journey.'
Read our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.
Longer survival was found in counties with only one Black primary-care doctor.
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