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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.
Many of you know Amy Ma, who is chair of the family advisory council at Montreal Children's Hospital. Recently, Amy told me she'd heard a...
This morning this story popped up in my Google alerts: Why do Americans ignore the Paralympics?My first thought was 'What Paralympics?'I ...
Max Setka, 21, is in his second year studying journalism and history at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont. Max has a long history wit...
Laura Howson-Strong is an occupational therapist at Holland Bloorview who has worked with children with disabilities at two ends of the s...
By Emily UrquhartLast week, I encouraged my daughter, Sadie, 7, to cheat at school. At least she saw it that way. I'd suggested that duri...
Anyone who knows Geoffrey Feldman knows that he's an extraordinary parent.“I'm not a typical dad,” he says with a chuckle.At 76, Geof...
CBC's The Current ran an interesting series of interviews this morning about Down syndrome and some of the conflicting messages we hear a...
Keah Brown is an American writer working on a book called The Pretty One, which is a collection of essays about living as a disabled woma...
In 2016 we told you about Kevan Chandler's trip to Europe with friends who carried him in a modified backpack when places wouldn't accomm...
The Azrieli Foundation has given $10.4-million to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health to create the first centre in Canada to supp...
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