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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.
Last night I was scrolling through the New York Times and a giant magazine feature on Dr. BJ Miller popped up: One man's quest to change ...
About 15 per cent of the time families miss their appointments at Holland Bloorview and in most cases, they don't call to cancel.“These...
I'll never forget a time I went to visit a child in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). I was in the waiting room during a shift cha...
Dr. Melanie Penner is a developmental pediatrician at Holland Bloorview who focuses on autism. She's the person who gives parents a diagn...
By Ron BishopOur son Neil is 14. He was diagnosed at a week old with cystic fibrosis. When he couldn't hold up his head or sit at age one...
Intensive behavioural therapy for autism is expensive—over $100,000 per child. In Ontario, the average child waits two-and-a-half years...
Many teens love to defy authority, speed and do other dangerous things.A new Holland Bloorview study finds that youth with the most compl...
A Minneapolis Star Tribune investigation into how hundreds of adults with developmental disabilities are segregated and neglected in a Mi...
It's a tough business problem: how do you commercialize a medical product for a niche market that can't afford it?For 10 years, Holland B...
How ironic that on the day Holland Bloorview research head Tom Chau encouraged us to "push against typifying perspectives" in our work, C...
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