Abstracts info

ERFCON Topics

Inclusive Education and Rehabilitation / Disability Studies

  • Inclusive research with children and persons with disabilities
  • Employment of persons with disabilities
  • Professional rehabilitation: vocational guidance, education and training
  • Difficulties in social inclusion
  • Independent living of disabled people
  • Expressive arts therapies
  • Assistive technology
  • Supporting children with disabilities and their families
  • Contemporary approaches to assessment, intervention and support to/for children with disabilities and their families
  • Families of children and adults with disabilities
  • Challenges of inclusive education and rehabilitation

Speech, Language and Hearing Pathology / Deaf Culture

  • Language and language disorders
  • Specific learning disorders
  • Communication and communication disorders
  • Speech and speech disorders
  • Voice and voice disorders
  • Dysphagia and feeding disorders
  • Auditory processing disorders
  • Hearing impairments
  • Sign language and deaf culture
  • Early intervention in speech, language and hearing pathology
  • Speech, language and hearing pathology in educational settings

Criminology and Penology / Corrections)

  • Contemporary trends in criminology penology / corrections and victimology
  • Contemporary trends in offender rehabilitation
  • Social problems and crime (addictions, prostitution, violence)
  • Crime policy
  • Crime in the COVID-19 pandemic

Children and adolescent with behavioural, emotional and mental health problems / social pedagogy

  • Prevalence, phenomenology and aetiology of risky and delinquent behaviour
  • Ethics and challenges of working with children and adolescents with behavioural, emotional and mental health problems
  • Behavioural, emotional and mental health problems – social policy and inter-sectoral collaboration
  • Promoting mental health
  • Assessment of behavioural, emotional and mental health problems in children and adolescents
  • Preventive and treatment interventions for children and adolescents with behavioural, emotional and mental health problems
  • Preventive and treatment interventions for risky and delinquent behaviour
  • Prevalence, phenomenology and aetiology of adolescents with behavioural, emotional and mental health problems

Ethics and challenges of working with vulnerable groups

The COVID-19 pandemic, helping professionals and vulnerable populations: research, reflection and challenges

PLENARY LECTURERS

Blaženka Brozović, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Speech and Language Pathology

David Polizzi, Ph.D. Professor, Indiana State University, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Criminology and Security Studies

Deborah Chen Pichler, Ph.D., Professor, Gallaudet University, Department of Linguistics

Joanna Anderson, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Department of Psychiatry

John Ravenscroft, Ph.D., Professor, University of Edinburg, Moray House School of Education and Sport, Department of Childhood Visual Impairment

Maria Anna Donati, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Universita Degli Studi Firenze, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Area del Farmaco e Salute del Bambino

Susanne Schwab, Ph.D., Professor, Universität Wien, Institut für Bildungswissenschaft, Zentrum für Lehrer-innenbildung

 

Ways to participate

  • Oral presentation
  • Poster presentation
  • Symposia / Round Table / Workshop
  • Participant without a presentation
Detailed instructions on the online submission of abstracts will be sent by 15th March.

Important dates:

Abstract submission deadline 15th May 2022
Abstract acceptance notification 15th June 2022.