Rhoda Olkin, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor, California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant University, and the coordinator of the Child/Family Track. She is the executive director of the Institute on Disability & Health Psychology. Her area of focus for research and writing is in disability studies, and the intersection of disability and clinical psychology. She has been training clinical psychologists to work with individuals and families with disabilities for over thirty years and has written widely on the topic. Her books (What Psychotherapists Should Know about Disability; Disability Affirmative Therapy; Teaching Disability; and Building a Disability-Affirmative Mental Health Practice) and a training film (Disability-Affirmative Therapy: A Beginner's Guide) are widely used in diversity and clinical courses. She answers questions from readers about living with polio, in Polio Health International. She works as a consultant to therapists and as an expert witness. Her mix of clinical and professional experience, personal and family disability experience, teaching and training are combined in her writing, which is always passionate, often amusing, and in the service of making the world a better place for people with disabilities.

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