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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.
Parent-ledgroups in mindfulness meditation and positive psychology significantly reduce stress, depression and anxiety in mothers of kids...
By Megan JonesGabrielle Marion-Rivard doesn't enter a room. She arrives. Underneathher thick mop of curly brown hair the actress's eyes a...
By David M. PerryMinutes after my son Nico was born, as he lay on the warming table, I noticed his eye was having difficulty opening. I a...
Here are Ben and D'Arcy on Lake Ontario at Cherry Beach.But there was another boat Ben was more interested in....
I found something that my son and I love to do.It involves going for a leisurely walk up to our local shops. We stop at a number of bench...
I was trying to explain to my therapist how having a child who didn't speak had let me off the hook in terms of answering tough questions...
Hello dear readers:I will be on holiday until August 1. We are taking a "staycation," but hope to rent or purchase some kayaks so we can ...
Two little girls with genetic conditions that include intellectual disability needed a life-saving organ transplant.One, in Philadelphia,...
Remember that quote: "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things?"Well, here's one of...
Last year Dutch journalist Anjet van Dijken publishedthe Brothers and Sisters Book, a first inHolland for siblings of children with disab...
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