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Read our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.
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Read our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.
Play is at the heart of this nurse's career with hospitalized children
Delivering Christmas stockings and having water pistol fights are some of the ways Irene Simpson made being in hospital fun.
In Ethiopia, early diagnosis improves care of kids with cerebral palsy
Prior to the research project at Holland Bloorview, Ethiopian clinicians didn’t have a tool to identify the condition in babies.
In this graphic novel, being different is cool
'If you have never seen yourself reflected in a book, I hope you will in this one.'
Respite workers are more difficult to find and afford
Agencies may charge more than double what parents paid when an Ontario service matched them with respite workers.
'The Ride Ahead' is about finding power in community
In his Hot Docs film, Samuel Habib crosses the United States to interview disability activists who offer advice on navigating an ableist world.
Check out the new BLOOM
Read our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.
How to break the ice when you're the new kid at school
'It's about a little girl with cerebral palsy starting Grade 2 and going to a new school where she's the only kid in her class with a disability.'
An au pair and a cottage are part of a family's care plan for their son
'The au pair gets plenty of breaks, but they become more part of the family. They get to know your child much more deeply than if they were just there for work.'
Black med students bump up against 'white man's club' in surgical training
'Black medical students struggled with the idea of being the only Black surgical resident or staff in their institutions...'
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