The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness

Miriam Kaufman, M.D., is a pediatrician and adolescent health specialist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Easy for You to Say: Q&A's for Teens Living with Chronic Illness or Disability and Overcoming Teen Depression: A Guide for Parents, co-author of Your Overweight Child: Promoting Fitness and Self-Esteem, and is the editor of Mothering Teens: Understanding the Adolescent Years. She is a regular speaker at conferences and has been interviewed by The New York Times, Time Magazine and many other newspapers and magazines. She has appeared on television and radio, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and the CBC. She graduated from Duke University School of Nursing and Queen’s University Faculty of Medicine.

Cory Silverberg, M.Ed., is a founding member Come As You Are, a co-operatively run, education based sex store in Toronto. He has conducted workshops across North America on sex toys, sexual communication, and sexuality and disability. He is a media consultant and a regular contributor in the national media on the subject of sexuality. He received his Masters of Education specializing in counseling psychology from the University of Toronto.

Fran Odette, MSW, is a project coordinator with the Women with Disabilities and Violence Initiative at Education Wife Assault in Toronto. She is the former Project Coordinator of SexAbility: A Program of Planned Parenthood of Toronto in partnership with the Anne Johnston Health Station. She has presented on the topics of women’s health, body image, sexual health, and disability across Canada and the U.S. She received her Masters in Social Work from Carlton University.