When 'it came to raising a disabled child, we didn’t know anyone in our circle who had gone through anything similar. So, I started building what we didn’t have.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

28.06.2025

A former patient's return brings the joy of music | Holland Bloorview

'I felt I could connect with kids on a deeper level because of my own experiences.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

27.06.2025

Check out the new BLOOM | Holland Bloorview

Read our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

13.06.2025

Youth who face disability bias in medicine more likely to forgo care | Holland Bloorview

'To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine exposure to disability-based discrimination in a large population of children with special health-care needs.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

11.06.2025

How one parent keeps hope alive | Holland Bloorview

'Nurturing hope is no small feat. Especially when we feel helpless to make things better for our loved one. Here are some of the strategies that I used frequently.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

07.06.2025

'Mom, what can we do this summer?' | Holland Bloorview

Holland Bloorview family leader Liz Zur leads a workshop on fun, accessible, low-cost things to do in Toronto this summer.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

05.06.2025

Former patient returns to train as a therapist | Holland Bloorview

'I’ve lived the experience of being a client and working with clinicians. So far kids have had a very positive response to me.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

03.06.2025

U.K. families with disabled kids are drowning in debt | Holland Bloorview

Over half have skipped meals to ensure their child can eat, one in three can’t keep their home warm, and 80 per cent can’t replace items like a fridge when they break.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

29.05.2025

Celebrate disability inclusion at AccessFest | Holland Bloorview

This Saturday enjoy Toronto's first festival to celebrate disability inclusion with a wide range of free, accessible activities and entertainment.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

28.05.2025

See what's new in BLOOM | Holland Bloorview

Read our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

17.05.2025

Workshop explores tensions between clinicians and parents | Holland Bloorview

'They said they were trained to be hyper-positive, but sometimes the parent isn’t in that space. Often there is a big, gaping hole of despair that no one wants to look at.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

13.05.2025

When a child is in crisis, parents need a 'safe space' | Holland Bloorview

'Sometimes the best thing I can do is really be there with them and hold a difficult feeling with them. It might not be psychotherapy the way you learn about it in school, but it's very therapeutic.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

08.05.2025

Families struggle to afford medical care for a disabled child | Holland Bloorview

Families with disabled children were almost two times as likely to have difficulty paying medical bills and to delay or forgo care for their child due to cost.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

06.05.2025

Disabled parenting is 'messier,' and that's a good thing | Holland Bloorview

'Needing care does not make you incapable of providing care. It doesn’t somehow make you a worse parent if you need help.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

06.05.2025

A concert where disabled attendees can be themselves | Holland Bloorview

'He can vocalize, cough, be suctioned, or stretch out on the floor without having to leave the venue space.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

30.04.2025

Less social activity starts early in children with cerebral palsy | Holland Bloorview

Preschoolers with cerebral palsy only participated in the community a few times in the last four months, according to a new study.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

29.04.2025

Restraint, isolation of disabled students goes untracked in Ontario | Holland Bloorview

Crisis in the Classroom was based on 541 parent responses to a survey about their child’s experience with restraints, isolation and exclusion in the 2022-23 school year.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

23.04.2025

The boy who set out on dogsled to find surgery | Holland Bloorview

A new book tells the story of a disabled boy in the 1800s who was treated at SickKids Hospital after travelling 40 miles on his own in a sled pulled by his dog.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

20.02.2025

Check out the new BLOOM | Holland Bloorview

Read our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

19.02.2025

Disability doesn't exist in medical training: study | Holland Bloorview

'The fact that [disability training] is not required and it's not seen as a core part of the medical school curriculum... reinforces the idea that these aren't really your patients.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

19.02.2025

Brother fuels this student's passion for social work | Holland Bloorview

Denise Silva is a social work student at Holland Bloorview, connecting families to housing, food, childcare and funding supports.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

29.01.2025

For Black autistic youth, police interactions can be dangerous | Holland Bloorview

Autistic behaviours become an 'additive risk factor to their Blackness in the context of police interactions.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

25.01.2025

Pediatrician looks for 'moments of connection, happiness and joy' | Holland Bloorview

'I frequently ask parents to brag about their child, so I can understand the child in their natural environment.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

24.01.2025

Florence died of starvation in B.C. government care | Holland Bloorview

Florence Girard was a 54-year-old woman with Down syndrome. She starved to death in 2018 in a homeshare overseen by a B.C. agency and Crown corporation.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

21.01.2025

The new BLOOM is here | Holland Bloorview

Read our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

08.01.2025

Family silence around disability complicates brothers' bond | Holland Bloorview

'Everything was bottled up in our family and I modelled that. Everyone had masks on, to protect their emotions.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

21.12.2024

Loneliness in autistic children can predict later depression | Holland Bloorview

'Kids who are lonely at age 10 are three times more likely to have depressive symptoms when they're 14.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

13.12.2024

For kids who use tech as their voice, Tracy's team delivers | Holland Bloorview

'We serve 27 augmentative and alternative communication clinics across the province.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

12.12.2024

Mathias draws on his disability experience to empower others | Holland Bloorview

'One joy of my work is when youth and families say they appreciate my lived experience.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

05.12.2024

A $30 million gift spurs Canadian collaboration in disability care | Holland Bloorview

Eleven disability groups across Canada will work together to improve care and inclusion.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

27.11.2024

Ableism is pervasive in mental-health care, new study says | Holland Bloorview

'That a hospital's policy would exclude a segment of the population was very shocking to me.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

26.11.2024

Parents seeking help met with blame, study finds | Holland Bloorview

A British survey found 86 per cent of 685 parents had been blamed by professionals when they sought help for a child with possible autism.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

21.11.2024

A deaf girl writes about the pain and beauty of being different | Holland Bloorview

The 12-year-old protagonist of a new book finds herself alienated from her family, who refuse to use sign language.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

15.11.2024

Music helped this artist find her voice | Holland Bloorview

'Children with disabilities, or who are hospitalized, don't have the same access to nature. Art is a way back in to being a human being in the world...'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

09.11.2024

Cartoons show the trauma of sedation for autistic children | Holland Bloorview

Nine comics tell the story of kids who are put under general anesthesia repeatedly because they can't tolerate medical exams. Most have autism and intellectual disability.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

08.11.2024

Cartoons 'show and tell' the trauma of sedation for autistic children | Holland Bloorview

Nine comics tell the story of kids who are put under general anesthesia repeatedly because they can't tolerate medical exams. Most have autism and intellectual disability.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

01.11.2024

'We wanted to provide sex-positive, inclusive education for free' | Holland Bloorview

'Tell It Like It Is' is a nine-module course that covers relationships, dating, gender and sexual identity, body image and safer sex practices.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

28.10.2024

Check out the new issue of BLOOM | Holland Bloorview

Read our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

17.10.2024

Ontario's adult health system falls short for disabled youth | Holland Bloorview

Two-thirds of survey respondents said adult health care was failing to meet their needs.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

11.10.2024

Parent-led academic rounds tackle ableism in pediatric care | Holland Bloorview

'We want to create a permanent platform to incorporate families more concretely into medical education.'

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How I found and built disability community | Holland Bloorview

A former patient's return brings the joy of music | Holland Bloorview

Check out the new BLOOM | Holland Bloorview

Youth who face disability bias in medicine more likely to forgo care | Holland Bloorview

How one parent keeps hope alive | Holland Bloorview

'Mom, what can we do this summer?' | Holland Bloorview

Former patient returns to train as a therapist | Holland Bloorview

U.K. families with disabled kids are drowning in debt | Holland Bloorview

Celebrate disability inclusion at AccessFest | Holland Bloorview

See what's new in BLOOM | Holland Bloorview

Workshop explores tensions between clinicians and parents | Holland Bloorview

When a child is in crisis, parents need a 'safe space' | Holland Bloorview

Families struggle to afford medical care for a disabled child | Holland Bloorview

Disabled parenting is 'messier,' and that's a good thing | Holland Bloorview

A concert where disabled attendees can be themselves | Holland Bloorview

Less social activity starts early in children with cerebral palsy | Holland Bloorview

Restraint, isolation of disabled students goes untracked in Ontario | Holland Bloorview

The boy who set out on dogsled to find surgery | Holland Bloorview

Check out the new BLOOM | Holland Bloorview

Disability doesn't exist in medical training: study | Holland Bloorview

Brother fuels this student's passion for social work | Holland Bloorview

For Black autistic youth, police interactions can be dangerous | Holland Bloorview

Pediatrician looks for 'moments of connection, happiness and joy' | Holland Bloorview

Florence died of starvation in B.C. government care | Holland Bloorview

The new BLOOM is here | Holland Bloorview

Family silence around disability complicates brothers' bond | Holland Bloorview

Loneliness in autistic children can predict later depression | Holland Bloorview

For kids who use tech as their voice, Tracy's team delivers | Holland Bloorview

Mathias draws on his disability experience to empower others | Holland Bloorview

A $30 million gift spurs Canadian collaboration in disability care | Holland Bloorview

Ableism is pervasive in mental-health care, new study says | Holland Bloorview

Parents seeking help met with blame, study finds | Holland Bloorview

A deaf girl writes about the pain and beauty of being different | Holland Bloorview

Music helped this artist find her voice | Holland Bloorview

Cartoons show the trauma of sedation for autistic children | Holland Bloorview

Cartoons 'show and tell' the trauma of sedation for autistic children | Holland Bloorview

'We wanted to provide sex-positive, inclusive education for free' | Holland Bloorview

Check out the new issue of BLOOM | Holland Bloorview

Ontario's adult health system falls short for disabled youth | Holland Bloorview

Parent-led academic rounds tackle ableism in pediatric care | Holland Bloorview

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