International Journal of Telerehabilitation; telerehab.pitt.edu; Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall 2012;  doi: 10.5195/ijt.2012.6111

Editors’ Note: Volume Overview

Volume Overview

The current issue of the International Journal of Telerehabilitation (IJT) includes an eclectic mix of topics, as befits a cross-disciplinary journal dedicated to presenting a wide range of thought provoking information about telerehabilitation.

The work therein addresses the following questions:
•	How can the use of telerehabilitation benefit persons with lower limb loss?
•	What is the role of telerehabilitation in implementing services to persons with autism?
•	Does e-supervision have a place in the preparation of graduate students in speech-language pathology?
•	How are states using telehealth to deliver early intervention services (IDEA Part C)?
•	How do speech-language pathologists perceive school-based telepractice?
•	How might speech telepractice engage clients in ways that depart from “speech therapy as usual?”

We suspect our readers will find this issue’s content to be informative, thought-provoking, and perhaps pioneering.

Call for Submissions

The next volume of the International Journal of Telerehabilitation will be published in spring, 2013.

We cordially invite your submissions by April 20, 2013, and accept original research, case studies, viewpoints, technology reviews, book reviews, and country reports that detail the current status of telerehabilitation.

Our peer reviewers constitute a multi-disciplinary group, and include researchers and clinicians from each of the major rehabilitation disciplines, rehabilitation engineers, health information managers, information technologists, and others. We welcome new peer-reviewers and invite guest editors with ideas for special, thematically focused issues. The IJT publication team is agile and can add additional issues as warranted to ensure currency.

Please contact Editor Ellen Cohn, PhD ecohn@pitt.edu or Associate Editor, Jana Cason, DHS, OTR/L jcason@spalding.edu if you are interested in contributing to an upcoming issue of the International Journal of Telerehabilitation.

Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the contributions of our authors and the support of new and returning reviewers; colleagues at the Rehabilitation Research Engineering Center on Telerehabilitation, (especially IJT’s graphic designer Joseph Ruffing); and our publishers, Timothy S. Deliyannides, Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, and Head, Information Technology, University Library System, and Vanessa Gabler, Electronic Publications Associate at the University of Pittsburgh.

Respectfully,

Ellen R. Cohn, PhD, CCC-SLP,

IJT Editor

Jana Cason, DHS, OTR/L,

Issue Co-Editor and IJT Associate Editor