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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.
A small Newfoundland coastal town is home to Canada's first autism-friendly hotel.Hotel Port aux Basques offers a fully-equipped sensory ...
Charlie Castro is a happy, social 7-year-old who loves elevators, math and reading. But his autism makes it impossible to filter out the ...
Photos by Anne ZbitnewA Stitch in Time: Mourning the Unnamed is a research and art project that honours the children and adults who lived...
Last week we ran a poem called thoughts that live in the hole of my brain by 17-year-old Lexin Zhang. “When I was young, I thought abou...
Check out this TV ad in Holland Bloorview's new anti-stigma campaign, Dear Everybody, which launches today.Dear Everybody is an open lett...
LexinZhang is a 17-year-old student participating in Holland Bloorview's Youth@Work program.This is a poem she wrote about having cerebra...
Hoops. This is another story about the unnecessary hoops people with disabilities and their families are forced tojump through to get gov...
A year ago I bought my son two pairs of the same New Balance training shoe—one in white and one in black. A colleague had recommended i...
Dr. Paige Church is a neonatologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and a developmental pediatrician who sees children with spina bi...
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