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Mom investigates parents' role in shared medical decisions
'They're the quarterback, talking to all the clinicians who are helping their child and chatting with other families in similar situations and bringing their personal experience.'
Disability bias remains strong, Harvard scientist says
'Racial bias dropped 26 per cent over 14 years and sexuality bias dropped 65 per cent. But we got absolutely no change in disability bias.'
Studies aim to find out if drug reduces 'noisy brain' in some autistic children
Difficulty filtering out background noise and sensory information can make it hard for some kids with autism to focus on an interaction.
Reporting a story when you're blind has its advantages, journalist says
'I've been told it makes me listen better, because my first way of taking in information is not visually.'
A disabled basketball star is the love interest in a new young adult novel
'The overall message is not to pigeonhole people and not to pigeonhole yourself.'
Disability arts disrupts ableist notions of beauty and value
'Tangled's mission is about creating opportunities for Mad, Deaf and disabled artists to shift the narrative of our cultural tablet.'
Mindfulness helped mom be kinder to herself. Now she teaches others
Protibha Gupta leads an eight-week meditation program for parents of children with disabilities at Holland Bloorview.
'Spaces': a music video that makes room for disability
'I want disabled kids to say "Hey, I see myself in one of these people in this video."'
Check out the latest BLOOM
Read new stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.
Cutting work hours to care for a child with a chronic condition is costly
Families lose an average of US$18K a year when they cut work hours or leave jobs to care for a child with extra needs.
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