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BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability
04.07.2024
A toddler who came for his first prosthetic leg to Holland Bloorview now makes devices at the hospital.
29.06.2024
Read our latest stories, with links to mainstream disability news and shout-outs to people making the world more inclusive.
28.06.2024
Laughing Boy is the story of a family's fight to get justice for the preventable death of their autistic son Connor in a National Health Service unit.
20.06.2024
Kidunified puzzles include characters who represent different cultures, ethnicities, disabilities and gender expressions.
14.06.2024
Virginia Wright volunteered at our rehab hospital as a teen, sparking a 40-year career in physiotherapy and research at Holland Bloorview.
12.06.2024
In a new study, parents said seeking services for their disabled child made them feel uncertain, hopeless, isolated and excluded.
08.06.2024
'I knew I had a need to create art, but I couldn't find a medium to work with because I have some issues with fine-motor control.'
01.06.2024
30.05.2024
A new report reveals troubling disparities in health outcomes and care experiences for disabled women and their babies.
25.05.2024
'If we wouldn't offer up our most personal history, as parents, to satisfy a stranger's passing curiosity, then why would we encourage our disabled children to do so?'
22.05.2024
'There’s always been a gap for peer support programs, particularly for caregivers of children with disabilities and complex medical needs.'
18.05.2024
Julian relies on two “support friends” to hang out at restaurants, go to events, and volunteer.
11.05.2024
'My research is about learning from, and understanding, families. I have some expertise, but the families are the experts.'
08.05.2024
'I started to pretend I was sick so I wouldn't have to go to school.'
04.05.2024
The Social ABCs for babies who show signs of autism nurtures 'an ability to connect with a partner and share positive feelings together.'
27.04.2024
25.04.2024
Delivering Christmas stockings and having water pistol fights are some of the ways Irene Simpson made being in hospital fun.
13.04.2024
Prior to the research project at Holland Bloorview, Ethiopian clinicians didn’t have a tool to identify the condition in babies.
10.04.2024
'If you have never seen yourself reflected in a book, I hope you will in this one.'
09.04.2024
Agencies may charge more than double what parents paid when an Ontario service matched them with respite workers.
03.04.2024
In his Hot Docs film, Samuel Habib crosses the United States to interview disability activists who offer advice on navigating an ableist world.
02.04.2024
28.03.2024
'It's about a little girl with cerebral palsy starting Grade 2 and going to a new school where she's the only kid in her class with a disability.'
27.03.2024
'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.'
19.03.2024
'Black medical students struggled with the idea of being the only Black surgical resident or staff in their institutions...'
The Trexo attaches to walkers and powers leg movements so kids with cerebral palsy can experience pain-free walking.
15.03.2024
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.
12.03.2024
'I think parents should introduce their kids to as many different things as they can with other people with disabilities.'
09.03.2024
'Our study makes direct comparisons between how people with and without disabilities do once they're diagnosed.'
08.03.2024
07.03.2024
Help raise dollars for a variety of hospital programs that benefit children with disabilities and their families.
05.03.2024
27.02.2024
'It's calming, and even though my problems may still be there, for a couple of hours I can take a break.'
23.02.2024
'What I was coming up against in the health-care system was not being heard, not being valued, not being seen and acknowledged.'
13.02.2024
Andrew Leland looks at blindness as a culture, from a historical perspective, and in relation to medicine and technology.
10.02.2024
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.'
03.02.2024
Confining residents to apartments with no physical contact with family, other residents or the outdoors violated human rights, a Norwegian study finds.
31.01.2024
Bottom-up onesies for babies and iron-on G-tube patches are popular with parents of little ones who use ventilators and feeding tubes.
24.01.2024
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.'
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.