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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.
One of our staff is doing a workshop for parents on acceptance. She asked me for resources and I recommended these BLOOM pieces below. Bu...
In an extraordinary decision, the Council of State in France has upheld the decision of the country's TV regulator to prevent this video,...
By Alivia OslandI've been in the hospital for almost three months because I've been diagnosed with Guillain Barré Syndrome. The lower ha...
In 2013 Sharda Ali-Ramjattan moved from Trinidad to Toronto with her daughter Selina, 9, in order to access better health services. Her h...
My friend Kristen Huys has produced a candid, tender, illuminating video in which children talk about their brother or sister with a disa...
Nine years ago Robyn Sheppard welcomed a son into her family through adoption. It was Deion, 7, a student she'd worked with as an educati...
Five years ago, Cole Galloway had an existential crisis.The scientist at the University of Delaware was publishing papers about developme...
This Is The Point is a play about two couples: a man and woman who have cerebral palsy, and a man and woman who have a child with cerebra...
Disability is personal. It's part of identity. When your child has significant disabilities, it becomes part of your identity too. Perhaps...
A Family Like Mine is a series of videos on diverse families raising children with disabilities. The photos above feature three of our fa...
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