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Ride the 'short bus' and meet five unforgettable kids
Precious Cargo is a memoir by Craig Davidson about his year driving a school bus of students with disabilities—the iconic “short bus....
Single mom embraces 'life of triage' with autistic boys
Please check out the latest in our A Family Like Mine series!Susan Cosgrove is a single mom to three children, including Liam and Phoenix...
Troubling message in Italian ad for Down Syndrome Day
Saatchi & Saatchi New York launched this ad yesterday for Italy's CoorDown, a national organization representing people with Down syndrom...
A researcher copes with the fragility of his daughter's life
Pierre Duez is a computer engineer who works in the Prism Lab at the Bloorview Research Institute. He supports students who are developin...
BLOOM media roundup
I recently received some amazing photos from the Ravn family and couldn't resist sharing one. Eric, the Bumblebee transformer on the righ...
Part 2 of Global News story on home nursing airs tonight
BLOOM contributor Marcy White was featured in a Global news story last night about her inability to get consistent, competent nurses to c...
Mailbag: A reader responds to a post on disability, friendship
A couple of weeks ago Meriah Main, a nurse in Vancouver, responded to a piece I wrote on friendship and youth with disabilities in the Hu...
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This is a photo of my son with "Betty" at a volunteer job he does at an adoption centre for cats. He loves it! He has a whole bunch of ta...
First armless pilot: 'My feet were more efficient and faster'
BBC World Service has this fabulous interview with Jessica Cox, a 33-year-old Arizona woman who is the world's first licensed pilot with ...
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