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

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

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

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.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

09.10.2024

Not everything happens for a reason | Holland Bloorview

When my son was born with a random genetic condition, the lack of a cause for his condition shook me.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

05.10.2024

Disabled boy finds his inner ninja | Holland Bloorview

'I think Ninja Nate can help disabled children of colour through its mere existence. "There's someone who looks like me going through what I'm going through."'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

02.10.2024

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

23.09.2024

Teen discovers passion for theatre | Holland Bloorview

'There have been times where the guilt I’ve felt about not doing more to help her figure out her interests is crushing.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

20.09.2024

Teen finds passions in her own time | Holland Bloorview

'There have been times where the guilt I’ve felt about not doing more to help her figure out her interests is crushing.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

19.09.2024

When healthy food and other basics are out of reach | Holland Bloorview

The Family Navigation Hub connects families with community resources that support housing, childcare and food security. We interview team lead Jessica Reid.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

17.09.2024

When a doctor suggests not treating a treatable condition in your child | Holland Bloorview

Clinicians advise a parent on what to say if an ER doctor suggests 'just' making their sick child comfortable.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

11.09.2024

Policy maker calls out racism and ableism in disability rights groups | Holland Bloorview

In a new book, Dara Baldwin recounts working with U.S. disability rights groups led by non-disabled, white people and being the only Black person at national policy tables.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

11.09.2024

Thoughts of suicide common in parents of disabled children | Holland Bloorview

'The fact that over 40 per cent of parent carers are thinking about suicide is a sign of really high levels of distress.'

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

04.09.2024

Remembering NeuroTribes author Steve Silberman | Holland Bloorview

Steve Silberman has died. He changed how people understand autism and explored the benefits of brains that think differently.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

31.08.2024

People with Down syndrome more likely to receive COVID DNR status | Holland Bloorview

Scientists found patients with Down syndrome were six times more likely to have DNR status ordered at admission for COVID pneumonia compared to those without.

BLOOM | Parenting for kids with disability

30.08.2024

A son's diagnosis prompts a mom to consider if she's autistic too | Holland Bloorview

'My autism helps me relate to my son's experiences and I have been an exceptionally assertive and unforgiving champion for him.'

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

A concert where disabled attendees can be themselves | Holland Bloorview

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

Not everything happens for a reason | Holland Bloorview

Disabled boy finds his inner ninja | Holland Bloorview

BLOOM is here! | Holland Bloorview

Teen discovers passion for theatre | Holland Bloorview

Teen finds passions in her own time | Holland Bloorview

When healthy food and other basics are out of reach | Holland Bloorview

When a doctor suggests not treating a treatable condition in your child | Holland Bloorview

Policy maker calls out racism and ableism in disability rights groups | Holland Bloorview

Thoughts of suicide common in parents of disabled children | Holland Bloorview

Remembering NeuroTribes author Steve Silberman | Holland Bloorview

People with Down syndrome more likely to receive COVID DNR status | Holland Bloorview

A son's diagnosis prompts a mom to consider if she's autistic too | Holland Bloorview

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