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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 community garden and farmer's market, arts programs, yoga and a café are part of a Toronto housing community Skye Gross (above left) e...
Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities.We're marking the occasion with an interview with Pia Pearce, mom to Kevin Pearce...
Next Wednesday is International Day of Persons with Disabilities.We're marking the occasion with an interview with Pia Pearce, mom to Kev...
Yesterday I was outraged to read this story about the case of a 9-year-old California girl with an intellectual disability who was sexual...
"Let me get this straight," my chiropractor said."You've had this pain in your neck and shoulders for 28 years, but you've only got $250 ...
Last week I shared a new comment written on our most popular post The Invisible Mom by Sue Robins. The Invisible Mom is about how moth...
I just read this exquisite piece by Kari Wagner-Peck, above with son Thorin, 8. Thorin attended Grade 1 at public school last year in Por...
What do you want people to know about being a special-needs parent? What do you wish people understood about parenting a child with a dis...
I want to share a comment written last week on our most popular post.The Invisible Mom, written by Sue Robins, has had almost 22,000 view...
Several years ago Chris Beesley wrote a BLOOM piece about how raising his son Mitchell, who has Fragile X and autism, had changed his lif...
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