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.
There is a very cool group called 3E Love Network that promotes acceptance of disability.Today is their International Day of Acceptance.T...
Girl advocate for disabled American Girl doll to write book KickstarterLast year Melissa Shang, then 10 (above), got almost 150,000 peopl...
When I first got to know Nick Joachimides (above centre), it was in his role as a nurse educator at Holland Bloorview.Nick was part of a ...
Patience.It's a quality that doesn't rank high in our competitive, consuming, instant-gratification culture. We want things, and we want ...
Special in Uniform is a world-first: a four-year training program that prepares youth with disabilities to serve in the Israeli Defence F...
Wheel Dance is a Canadian non-profit hoping to bring ballroom dancing classes to children with disabilities.“It's a great physical work...
When Mike LeDonne's daughter Mary (above) was born, the mood in the room went from jubilation over what doctors said was a “textbook bi...
Vulgar poster campaign sparks Human Rights Tribunal The Toronto StarAnonymous posters displayed in a Scarborough co-op targeted residents...
A year-and-a-half ago Sue Robins (with son Aaron) wrote what's become our most read post: The invisible mom. It was about how moms of kid...
This piece by Susan Senator (centre), author of Making Peace With Autism and the Autism Mom's Survival Guide (for Dad's too!) touched me. Susan always writes with great honesty and insight about
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