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.
'There's a strong medical model in the United States that says disability is bad and sad.'
Tight muscles caused Lexi to fall repeatedly and experience significant pain. A surgery at SickKids and rehab at Holland Bloorview have been life-changing, her mother Christine says.
Parents of children with chronic conditions are 75 per cent more likely to have depression, and 40 per cent more likely to have anxiety, than parents of children without a chronic condition, a new
In a new JAMA Network article, clinicians say that parents who care for children with high medical needs at home need limits set on their work hours to protect their child's safety and their own
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Little research has been done on what children know about concussion, whether they've experienced the injury or not. Holland Bloorview PhD candidate Katie Mah used drawings to reveal their perceptions
A prosthetic knee designed at Holland Bloorview is reaching amputees in the developing world at an affordable price due to an innovative social enterprise.
A new exhibit at the Guelph Civic Museum uncovers a eugenics course taught at two founding colleges of the University of Guelph in the first half of the 20th century.
The foolishness of clowns, their vulnerability and willingness to fail, produces 'joy without demands' in hospitalized children, write the Holland Bloorview authors of a new Journal of Medical
As the mom of a son who had severe asthma and a life-threatening immune condition, Sheila Jennings learned firsthand that it was impossible to work outside the home and tend to her child with complex
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