Thematic areas

This is a list of the principal thematic areas for submissions. If your work does not fit within these themes, please indicate “others”.

• Neurorehabilitation: Acquired brain damage, spinal cord injury, neurodegenerative diseases (multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, etc.) peripheral nerve injuries, etc.
• Intellectual disability: Conceptual abilities and cognitive functioning. Augmentative and alternative communication systems. Cognitive accessibility. New technologies applied to intellectual disability; personal, domestic and community autonomy. Self-determination, self-management and empowerment. Leisure and participation in community activities. Employment. Sexuality. Life cycle, adolescence, adulthood and third age.
• Physical rehabilitation: traumatic and orthopedic pathologies, rheumatic pathologies, pain, etc.
• Sensory deficits: Auditory disability, visual disability, deaf-blindness, etc.
• Mental health: mood disorders, psychotic disorders, eating disorders, dual pathology.
• Oncology and palliative care
• Geriatrics: Dementia and cognitive deterioration, occupational therapy at the end of life and in fragile elderly people, elder abuse, occupational therapy in healthy adults.
• Pediatrics: premature birth, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, sensory integration, infant cerebral palsy, etc.
• Community intervention: immigration and ethnicity, prison populations, homeless populations, gender violence, international cooperation, primary care, education etc.
• Others: ergonomics, support products, deontology, quality of care, etc.