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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.
Bioethicist Franco Carnevale recalled the assumptions he held about families caring for children using ventilators at home, prior to laun...
Sweet Dreams for Chiyo is a tender film about how one family copes when their toddler is diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Families of chil...
A week ago Rebecca Cokely wrote an interesting piece for Rewire.News called On parenting and consent: When sharing isn't caring. "While n...
Photo of Anchel Krishna and her daughter SyonaIt's Mental Health Week, so BLOOM asked parent readers to send us their strategies for find...
This family! If you haven't watched the film Caring for Tor that aired on CBC The National, you must. It fits perfectly with Mental Healt...
Studies show elevated rates of depression and anxiety in parents of children with disabilities. They even show our cells age faster due t...
Concern about the mental health of a brother or sister with a developmental disability was the most pressing issue for over half of 360 C...
The following is a found poem created last night by the narrative group for parents of children with brain injury at Holland Bloorview. A...
By Terrence BishundayalAt the age of six I began losing my childhood.In 2002, my family came from Guyana to Canada.I started first grade ...
Amina Aumeer is a social service worker student at Seneca College who just finished a four-month placement at Holland Bloorview supportin...
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