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After trauma, parents need space to 'fall apart emotionally'
Say the word ‘trauma’ among parents of kids with complex medical problems and disabilities, and the floodgates open.
Nick turns to teens to help raise reporting of concussions
Nick Reed is an occupational therapist who joined Holland Bloorview as a research associate. In almost six short years, he's become a sen...
Health care for disabled Ontarians fails to measure up
Ontario adults with developmental disabilities are nearly four times more likely to die early than their non-disabled peers, and fare wor...
Racism and ableism stack up against black moms, study finds
Last month York University researcher Nazilla Khanlou presented results on a study of black mothers with children with developmental disa...
Women with autism at higher risk for suicide, study finds
Utah women with autism were over three times more likely to die by suicide than their peers without autism between 2013 and 2017, accordi...
What works in children's rehab, and why, is researcher's passion
De-Lawrence Lamptey has a PhD in rehabilitation science and a master's degree in clinical psychology. He has right-sided weakness related...
Research day challenges dominant ideas about human value
How ironic that on the day Holland Bloorview research head Tom Chau encouraged us to "push against typifying perspectives" in our work, C...
How one mom embraces a new life in Canada
In 2013 Sharda Ali-Ramjattan moved from Trinidad to Toronto with her daughter Selina, 9, in order to access better health services. Her h...
Why child disability research belongs in mainstream journals
Children with disabilities are two to three times more likely to have obesity than their peers.Yet when Holland Bloorview scientist Amy M...
A dad pedals his son 600 km in search of a cure
By Megan JonesIt seemed to come out of nowhere. Only in retrospect, Andrew Sedmihradsky says, did the signs of his son's disease become c...
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