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Group home residents bore the brunt of pandemic isolation. It can't happen again
Confining residents to apartments with no physical contact with family, other residents or the outdoors violated human rights, a Norwegian study finds.
Clothing brand keeps medically fragile children in mind
Bottom-up onesies for babies and iron-on G-tube patches are popular with parents of little ones who use ventilators and feeding tubes.
This therapist and mom knows a lot about disability and mental health
When a child is 'brought up to strive to be different from who they fundamentally are, it wreaks havoc with their psychological, emotional and social development.'
Artist gives hospitalized kids a sense of agency
You may have noticed Shannon with her mobile art cart filled with paint, clay, fabric, beads, wood and all of the tools that allow kids to create projects at the bedside.
Disabled, racialized med students face highest rates of burnout
'If you have multiple disabilities and you’re Asian or Black or Hispanic or identify as Indigenous, then your risk of burnout is even higher than that of white students with multiple disabilities.'
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.
Disabled women talk about what they bring to medicine
'Dr. Church said the doctors' experiences receiving health care "make our conversations with our patients richer, and more real."'
Reading roundup: The child as the parent's double in 'Doppelganger'
'If a double that reflects well on them is what many parents are after, then disability arrives as an unwelcome interruption to those best-laid plans.'
This teen is making a name for herself on the track and screen
Holland Bloorview 'helped me connect with other amputees and helped me make a difference in the world. They helped me be so much more confident in myself.'
In 'Mixmups,' disability is just part of play and imagination
A new animation show for preschoolers is 'a fantasy space where barriers are removed and everything is open to all.'
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