BLOOM combines real family stories with the best expert advice, plus the latest news and opinion on disability.
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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.
By D. Christine Brown We were sitting in a nice Italian restaurant in Kingston, Ont., en route home from our vacation. Our son Lucas was ...
By Val LustedI never thought I'd be writing my very first blog with this title!However, when 2015 appeared on the horizon, I decided to s...
Almost 200 people responded to our 2015 BLOOM survey earlier in the summer. We will report more fully on the findings, but I wanted to sh...
When Autism Comes To Roost: A Family's Journey From Denial to Acceptance is a new parent memoir out next week. Canadian psychologist Alic...
By Sue Robins and Isabel JordanWhen my son was diagnosed with Down syndrome 12 years ago, our family was thrust into a world of medical s...
Yesterday a colleague mentioned that she had seen my son in the distance at a park."He touched my heart merelythrough my quiet observatio...
By Lianna KoernerWhen I think back to the early days of November 2013, I see my son and myself as strangers.He is an eight-year-old boy s...
When my son was young I searched for interventions that would "minimize" his disabilities.I'm embarrassed to write that now, knowing how ...
By Katharine HarrisonWhen my son Max was a baby and a toddler I cringed and flinched and recoiled when the topic of milestones came up. M...
Kathryn Ruppert-Dazai (above) is a Toronto textile artist who plans to create an art series called A Failure to Thrive. These large-scale...
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