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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.
The way Canadian children are assessed for autism varies widely, with a median wait for families of seven months to get a diagnosis, acco...
Photos by Jen SquiresI was scrolling through Twitter when my eyes locked on an image of a pregnant woman. Taken from the side, her belly ...
Five siblings have created research scholarships in occupational science and therapy at the University of Toronto in honour of their brot...
Recently, Holland Bloorview family therapist Caron Gan sent me this message:‘Yesterday I went to pick up a prescription at my local dru...
Sadora Asafaw has worked as a special-needs coordinator in Holland Bloorview's Spiral Garden and as a recreation assistant running progra...
Yesterday Southern Health in Britain was fined just over $1.8 million dollars for the preventable death of Connor Sparrowhawk, an 18-year...
Lots of amazing things happen in my son's life, things that fill my heart with gratitude. But too often those memories get lost amid the ...
Members of disability rights group ADAPT protest the use of electric shocks on disabled students in front of FDA Commissioner Scott Gottl...
Robert Fresco is a professional filmmaker, so when his twins Fraser and Hallee were born, it was natural that he'd turn the camera on the...
Chickenshed isa vibrant British theatre company that does professional plays and musicals, high school and university education, children...
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