BLOOM combines real family stories with the best expert advice, plus the latest news and opinion on disability.
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BLOOM combines real family stories with the best expert advice, plus the latest news and opinion on disability.
Read our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.
Judith Scott was an acclaimed sculptor whose abstract pieces—combining fibre and found objects like an umbrella or bicycle wheel—show...
This painting by Bryan Pearce is part of a 38-image collection called BBC's Your Paintings.I'm intrigued by how such divergent perspectiv...
Yesterday my hubby sent me an e-mail with a link to this story about a 13-year-old Peterborough, Ont. boy with Asperger's. He invited 15 ...
By Madeleine Greey“Okay ladies, here's your homework. Figure out what you're willing to let go of. Make a list. Then prioritize it over...
By Beth DangerfieldThree days before this picture was taken we rushed my daughter Abby into the emergency room. She had a stomach bug and...
Canadian humanist Jean Vanier is the 2015 winner of the Templeton Prize, a $2.1 million award for his work bringing adults with and witho...
In 2011 Amir Karmali's son Kaylum was accidently kicked in the head during a soccer game. The next morning he couldn't walk and was hospi...
When Luke Anderson graduated as a civil engineer in 2002 he moved from Ontario to British Columbia to pursue his passion: mountain biking...
Beyond the Pale is a new memoir about raising a child with albinism. It's written by Emily Urquhart, a Canadian folklorist and writer who...
Disabled by design Slate"We inhabit a culture that perpetuates the idea that disability lies in bodies rather than in design." Fascina...
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