BLOOM combines real family stories with the best expert advice, plus the latest news and opinion on disability.
Cartoons show the trauma of sedation for autistic children
Nine comics tell the story of kids who are put under general anesthesia repeatedly because they can't tolerate medical exams. Most have autism and intellectual disability.
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...
A problem focus misses 'the opportunity to get kids to thrive'
Dr. Evdokia Anagnostou is a neurologist and clinician scientist in the Autism Research Centre at Holland Bloorview. She is also a Canada ...
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...
How to run parent-to-parent support
Parenting a child with a complex, life-threatening medical condition and disabilities is stressful and isolating.Some of the best support...
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