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Editors’ Note: Volume Overview
Current Issue
The current issue of the International Journal of Telerehabilitation (IJT) launches the 5th year of the journal’s publication. Fittingly, it presents some innovative applications of telerehabilitation.
• Fairman and colleagues present an award winning new mHealth solution to promote wellness in persons with spina bifida.
• Faett and colleagues address the use of telerehabilitation to engage in self-management of chronic limb swelling in persons with limited mobility.
• Criss, an occupational therapist, describes a novel use of school-based telerehabilitation to improve handwriting. The program can be applied to the traditional school setting, virtual schools, or the home-school setting.
• Hall and colleagues present a systematic review of the use of telepractice to assess and treat persons with aphasia. It is notable that in each of the above articles that are multi-authored, the research and writing team is interdisciplinary. The current issue features authors from nine disciplines: information management, linguistics, occupational therapy, medicine (physical medicine and rehabilitation), nursing, physical therapy, rehabilitation counseling, rehabilitation engineering, and speech- language pathology.
Call for Submissions
The next volume of the International Journal of Telerehabilitation will be published in fall, 2013. We cordially invite your submissions by October 1, 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 
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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, FAOTA (JCason@spalding.edu) if you are interested.
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; 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 
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