BLOOM combines real family stories with the best expert advice, plus the latest news and opinion on disability.
'I study how bodies move and how power moves in healthcare'
Stephanie Lurch is one of the few Black physiotherapists in Canada working as a clinician, educator and scholar. Her focus is health equity.
LIGHTS spurs families to take action on housing
LIGHTS is a Toronto program that brings together families of young adults with intellectual disabilities to help them plan creative housi...
A brother's story inspires safe haven for play
Daniel Scott (above left) coordinates Holland Bloorview's Ronald McDonald playroom. The early childhood educator also runs the hospital's...
We need disability rights, not days
Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities.I'm not a fan of awareness days.I know they're unlikely to prompt us to unearth t...
For Kate
Julie Drury has written a number of times for BLOOM about raising her daughter Kate, who had a rare mitochondrial disorder. Most recently...
BLOOM media round-up
Last week we posted Ho, ho, humbug about how toy shopping can be a difficult time for parents whose children have disabilities.Every year...
Ho ho, humbug? Toy shopping is hard for special-needs parents
By Julie BrocklehurstThere's a natural desire to pass family traditions down to the next generation, and I always thought I would… unti...
A letter to my Bubbie
Laura Rosen Cohen has a teenaged son with a rare genetic disorder. This is a letter she wrote to her late grandmother, who was and remain...
Why home nursing is not respite for one mom
By Marcy WhiteIt looks good on paper.After a year in hospital with machines helping him breathe and tubes sucking out mucous that clogs h...
How does disability enter into care decisions about preemies?
Last week I read this post called One Size Does Not Fit All about “shared decision-making” between parents and medical staff in a neo...
I wish I'd seen the beauty of sign language years ago
Last night was fun. I got to tell a story in American Sign Language (ASL) about a funny incident that happened when I was a teen. I was d...
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