BLOOM combines real family stories with the best expert advice, plus the latest news and opinion on disability.
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.
Hotel helps kids with autism feel at home
A small Newfoundland coastal town is home to Canada's first autism-friendly hotel.Hotel Port aux Basques offers a fully-equipped sensory ...
This mom broke the social isolation of autism
Charlie Castro is a happy, social 7-year-old who loves elevators, math and reading. But his autism makes it impossible to filter out the ...
‘Patient 357’ inspires project to mourn unnamed asylum dead
Photos by Anne ZbitnewA Stitch in Time: Mourning the Unnamed is a research and art project that honours the children and adults who lived...
a love letter to the one i work to forget
Last week we ran a poem called thoughts that live in the hole of my brain by 17-year-old Lexin Zhang. “When I was young, I thought abou...
End the stigma
...
Dear Everybody: It's time to end stigma
Check out this TV ad in Holland Bloorview's new anti-stigma campaign, Dear Everybody, which launches today.Dear Everybody is an open lett...
thoughts that live in the hole in my brain
LexinZhang is a 17-year-old student participating in Holland Bloorview's Youth@Work program.This is a poem she wrote about having cerebra...
How 'there's a new rule' broke me
Hoops. This is another story about the unnecessary hoops people with disabilities and their families are forced tojump through to get gov...
It's the little things, like shoes
A year ago I bought my son two pairs of the same New Balance training shoe—one in white and one in black. A colleague had recommended i...
A doctor reveals her hidden disability
Dr. Paige Church is a neonatologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and a developmental pediatrician who sees children with spina bi...
Pagination
Join Our Mailing List
Sign up to receive helpful resources, breaking news, and special updates from Holland Bloorview.