'The au pair gets plenty of breaks, but they become more part of the family. They get to know your child much more deeply than if they were just there for work.'

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19.03.2024

A robot helps children with cerebral palsy move in new ways | Holland Bloorview

The Trexo attaches to walkers and powers leg movements so kids with cerebral palsy can experience pain-free walking.

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19.03.2024

Black med students bump up against 'white man's club' in surgical training | Holland Bloorview

'Black medical students struggled with the idea of being the only Black surgical resident or staff in their institutions...'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

15.03.2024

'Assume that I can' is a cool ad, with a caveat | Holland Bloorview

A new ad pokes fun at common assumptions about people with Down syndrome. There's only one problem. In some ways it reinforces a narrow view of human value.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

12.03.2024

Sadie loves to shoot and score | Holland Bloorview

'I think parents should introduce their kids to as many different things as they can with other people with disabilities.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

09.03.2024

Study shows inequity in cancer survival rates | Holland Bloorview

'Our study makes direct comparisons between how people with and without disabilities do once they're diagnosed.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

08.03.2024

Adults with intellectual disabilities more likely to die after a cancer diagnosis than those without | Holland Bloorview

'Our study makes direct comparisons between how people with and without disabilities do once they're diagnosed.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

07.03.2024

Consider a contribution to Capes for Kids | Holland Bloorview

Help raise dollars for a variety of hospital programs that benefit children with disabilities and their families.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

05.03.2024

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

27.02.2024

Parent finds refuge in art and understanding | Holland Bloorview

'It's calming, and even though my problems may still be there, for a couple of hours I can take a break.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

23.02.2024

Mother fights anti-Black bias in autistic daughter's care | Holland Bloorview

'What I was coming up against in the health-care system was not being heard, not being valued, not being seen and acknowledged.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

13.02.2024

Seeing blindness in a new way | Holland Bloorview

Andrew Leland looks at blindness as a culture, from a historical perspective, and in relation to medicine and technology.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

10.02.2024

Conveying a patient's value can be healing, scientist says | Holland Bloorview

Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov hopes his research will shift medical culture from a need to ‘fix’ patients to a commitment to “be with, to not abandon, to value.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

03.02.2024

Group home residents bore the brunt of pandemic isolation. It can't happen again | Holland Bloorview

Confining residents to apartments with no physical contact with family, other residents or the outdoors violated human rights, a Norwegian study finds.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

31.01.2024

Clothing brand keeps medically fragile children in mind | Holland Bloorview

Bottom-up onesies for babies and iron-on G-tube patches are popular with parents of little ones who use ventilators and feeding tubes.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

24.01.2024

Artist gives hospitalized kids a sense of agency | Holland Bloorview

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.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

24.01.2024

This therapist and mom knows a lot about disability and mental health | Holland Bloorview

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.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

20.01.2024

Art gives hospitalized kids a sense of agency | Holland Bloorview

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.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

18.01.2024

Disabled, racialized med students face highest rates of burnout | Holland Bloorview

'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.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

10.01.2024

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

04.01.2024

Disabled women talk about what they bring to medicine | Holland Bloorview

'Dr. Church said the doctors' experiences receiving health care "make our conversations with our patients richer, and more real."'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

15.12.2023

Reading roundup: The child as the parent's double in 'Doppelganger' | Holland Bloorview

'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.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

12.12.2023

This teen is making a name for herself on the track and screen | Holland Bloorview

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.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

10.12.2023

In music therapy, 'there are no wrong notes' | Holland Bloorview

'I want them to dive completely into the creative process and learn what sounds they like and how fast or slow they want to play.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

05.12.2023

In 'Mixmups,' disability is just part of play and imagination | Holland Bloorview

A new animation show for preschoolers is 'a fantasy space where barriers are removed and everything is open to all.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

02.12.2023

Major Canadian cities shut out disabled people, study finds | Holland Bloorview

'In terms of sectors, education services, which includes schools and universities, was the least inclusive, with less than 35 per cent of locations rated accessible.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

29.11.2023

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

23.11.2023

'Indestructible' Harry Potter stuntman adapts to life in a paralyzed body | Holland Bloorview

In a new film, David Holmes' Harry Potter friends rally to support him after his injury. But we don't see whether he embraces the disability community.

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Food, film and adventure are on Julian's to-do list | Holland Bloorview

An Indigenous experience of autism | Holland Bloorview

Michelle didn't tell on her bully. Many kids don't | Holland Bloorview

Helping parents read their baby's cues | Holland Bloorview

Check out the new BLOOM! | Holland Bloorview

Play is at the heart of this nurse's career with hospitalized children | Holland Bloorview

In Ethiopia, early diagnosis improves care of kids with cerebral palsy | Holland Bloorview

In this graphic novel, being different is cool | Holland Bloorview

Respite workers are more difficult to find and afford | Holland Bloorview

'The Ride Ahead' is about finding power in community | Holland Bloorview

Check out the new BLOOM | Holland Bloorview

How to break the ice when you're the new kid at school | Holland Bloorview

An au pair and a cottage are part of a family's care plan for their son | Holland Bloorview

A robot helps children with cerebral palsy move in new ways | Holland Bloorview

Black med students bump up against 'white man's club' in surgical training | Holland Bloorview

'Assume that I can' is a cool ad, with a caveat | Holland Bloorview

Sadie loves to shoot and score | Holland Bloorview

Study shows inequity in cancer survival rates | Holland Bloorview

Adults with intellectual disabilities more likely to die after a cancer diagnosis than those without | Holland Bloorview

Consider a contribution to Capes for Kids | Holland Bloorview

Check out the new BLOOM | Holland Bloorview

Parent finds refuge in art and understanding | Holland Bloorview

Mother fights anti-Black bias in autistic daughter's care | Holland Bloorview

Seeing blindness in a new way | Holland Bloorview

Conveying a patient's value can be healing, scientist says | Holland Bloorview

Group home residents bore the brunt of pandemic isolation. It can't happen again | Holland Bloorview

Clothing brand keeps medically fragile children in mind | Holland Bloorview

Artist gives hospitalized kids a sense of agency | Holland Bloorview

This therapist and mom knows a lot about disability and mental health | Holland Bloorview

Art gives hospitalized kids a sense of agency | Holland Bloorview

Disabled, racialized med students face highest rates of burnout | Holland Bloorview

Check out the new BLOOM | Holland Bloorview

Disabled women talk about what they bring to medicine | Holland Bloorview

Reading roundup: The child as the parent's double in 'Doppelganger' | Holland Bloorview

This teen is making a name for herself on the track and screen | Holland Bloorview

In music therapy, 'there are no wrong notes' | Holland Bloorview

In 'Mixmups,' disability is just part of play and imagination | Holland Bloorview

Major Canadian cities shut out disabled people, study finds | Holland Bloorview

Check out the new BLOOM! | Holland Bloorview

'Indestructible' Harry Potter stuntman adapts to life in a paralyzed body | Holland Bloorview

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