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'We just fell in love with her at first sight'
Catherine and Trish Emmons and daughter Priscilla, 3, are the focus of our new A Family Like Mine video.Priscilla, known as Cilla, was bo...
Stares at the mall
Many of you know Sue Robins as the author behind The invisible mom, one of our most read posts about social isolation among families of c...
Finding the music in everyone
The other day I posted a call for story ideas on the BLOOM Facebook page. Karen Bojti wrote: “Another ‘out of the box' person I have...
'Trust your instincts. That's what I tell parents'
Fahima Afroze is a biomedical engineer with three daughters. Myreen, 11, has autism and Zafreen, 8, has cerebral palsy.When Farzeen, now ...
These parents took a year off to learn to 'speak Oskar'
Photos by Alia YoussefBeyond The Spectrum is a candid, captivating film about autism that pushes you to think and see in different ways. ...
This and that, including autism and siblings
Photo by Alia Youssef Beyond the Spectrum is a brilliant film about a Canadian mom and dad who take a year off to do therapy with their s...
Wanted: Surrogate parents
Any parent of a child with disabilities will tell you that advocating for a good education for their child can be one of the most challen...
Racist, sexist words by patients, work peers plague hospitals
In the last month, a few studies about racist and sexist comments in medicine crossed my desk. One survey is about bigoted comments made ...
Jonathan Mooney calls out our 'rhetoric of differences'
Author Jonathan Mooney has a brilliant piece in the New York Times' disability series this week: You are special! Now stop being differen...
Falling asleep on a home-care night shift spurs nurse's research
Krista Keilty is a nurse practitioner and visiting scholar at the Bloorview Research Institute who studies parents who care for children ...
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