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Stop the Silence On Bullying! A new research study
Claude Watson Arts Program students help promote filmpossible!
A Day of Celebration!
Holland Bloorview’s online video contest is now accepting entries!
Bringing visibility to disability: Bloorview to launch online video contest June 17 with $5000 cash prize
The National Ballet Visits Bloorview
Bloorview joins with SickKids to extend pediatric expertise to Qatar
Bill Johnson 2009 Power of Possibility Award Recipient
Best Practice Spotlight Organization
Recipes for Possibility fundraiser Raises More than $1 Million
Augmentative and Alternative Communication Awareness
Bloorview Partners with Utrecht University
Laughs for Possibility
Battle of the Blades
Infrared camera unlocks man’s first words
Registered Disability Savings Plan awareness campaign announced at Bloorview
Bloorview’s Annual Celebration of Excellence in Childhood Disability
Health Minister announces $3.9 million in childhood disability research
Bloorview scientists read minds with infrared scan
Amputee climbs Africa’s highest peak
Registered Disability Savings Plan Launch Announced at Bloorview
Bloorview responds to Health Canada report on Botox® (Update)
SmartCentres Supports Bloorview Kids Rehab’s Creative Arts March Break Respite Camps
Auction of Possibility
Look Foxy for a Great Children’s Charity
Ontario’s Early Researcher Awards announced at Bloorview
12th Annual Bay Street Pro Celebrity Softball Challenge
Bay Street bikers come together for “Bike for Tykes” in support of Bloorview Kids Rehab
New clinic helps youth with disabilities transition to adulthood
Bloorview awarded the 2008 Canadian Nurses Association Employer Recognition Award
BMO’s total donation to Bloorview Kids Foundation reaches $530,000
Media Advisory and Photo Opportunity – Bloorview Kids Foundation names school library BMO Financial Group School Library
Bloorview responds to FDA report on Botox®
Real-world coaching to achieve your goals
A checklist for life skills
Bloorview’s high-tech ventilator alarm system a first in Canada
Mentorship program goes abroad
Lena marks her journey with bravery beads
Making the tough stuff kids’ play - With virtual-reality, therapy is fun
Thumbs up for Adam - A voice machine powered by Adam’s only moving digit unlocks his personality
Possibility Beads Program Launches
Bloorview’s Independence Program hits prime time with W-5 story, November 18 at 7 pm on CTV
The Young Heroes of Bloorview Kids Rehab (PDF: 8,220 KB)
Read a Toronto Sun series about how Bloorview helps kids turn disability into possibility
Adapted instruments give teens new level of artistic expression
Flora the clown has the magic touch
‘I’ve always felt the clown being out of place in the hospital and being vulnerable and alone mirrors the child’
Grandson’s voice is ‘the best Christmas gift ever’
Technology allows Kayle to express thoughts his family never knew he had
Hospitals join forces in child development
A Sick Kids' program that assesses childhood developmental disorders moves to Bloorview
With pain disorders, looks can deceive
So many doctors didn't know about fibromyalgia,' says Phoebe, 14, learning how to manage chronic pain in Bloorview's pediatric pain service
Device puts spoken word in writing
With SpeakQ, students with learning disabilities simply talk to get their thoughts on paper
Cracking the language code
A stroke robbed Nicole, 8, of the ability to express herself. At Bloorview, she's putting together the puzzle of words and grammar with speech-language pathologist Kim Bradley.
Head start levels the playing field
A specialized early school program for students with disabilities is their best guarantee for inclusion in community schools later on, says Linda LaRocque, principal of Bloorview School Authority. Read about the early primary program she runs for children aged four to six at Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital.
Software unlocks the writer in Luke
A word-prediction tool developed at Bloorview enables a boy with hand tremors to "put down on paper the kind of wonderful, funny response that he could only express verbally before," his mother says.
Alex's dad is giving back
As voluntary chair of the most ambitious fundraising campaign in Bloorview's 105-year history, it's Dougal Macdonald's private story of parenting a child with disabilities that counts. Bloorview kicks off a $150 million investment in children's rehabilitation with the construction of a new building and the launch of a childhood disability research institute.
A restful retreat
Construction is underway on Bloorview's new $100-million facility, which architect Terry Montgomery describes as "a unique design with a country atmosphere -- a kind of restful retreat." Read about the rationale for the design in this interview with Terry Mongomery, principal at Montgomery Sisam Architects Inc.
Tapping every child's promise
Bloorview Kids Rehab launches North America's first research institute dedicated to childhood disability. Bloorview Research Institute is made up of a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers whose aim is to generate clinical discoveries and technologies that will benefit children worldwide.
How come you walk funny?
A Discovery Health documentary chronicles one year in the life of Bloorview's integrated kindergarten program, where able-bodied kids are immersed in a world of wheelchairs and walkers.
Canada invests in engineer's smart technology
Bloorview's biomedical engineer Tom Chau receives a Canada Research Chair in pediatric rehabilitation engineering for developing smart technologies that allow children to circumvent their disabilities.
Smoothing the way for William
New prosthetic knee makes instability a thing of the past.
Finding the perfect fit
A massive limb-use study aims to help therapists track which prostheses work best for children at different stages.
Harnessing the murmur of muscles
Our muscles murmur as they contract. Now researchers at Bloorview are harnessing those sounds to revolutionize the way prosthetic limbs are controlled. The plan is to embed tiny sensors that measure sound and vibrations in below-elbow prostheses, producing a device that rolls on like a sock.
High-fat diet puts Ashley back on the ice
A child with intractable, complex seizures shows significant improvement after trying the ketogenic diet -- a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that chemically mimics starvation.

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