Editors’ NOte
Ellen R. Cohn, Jana Cason

The International Journal of Telerehabilitation (IJT) is a biannual journal dedicated to advancing telerehabilitation by disseminating information about current research and practices. The journal is indexed by PubMed and Scopus.
Issue Overview
This issue was produced in the days of the unrelenting 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. As would be expected for an e-journal, these unusual circumstances did not alter IJT’s editorial and production processes, as IJT journal editors and publishing staff have always worked remotely.  What was a departure from issues produced pre-COVID19, was the volume of new submissions, nearly a five-fold increase. This quickly required an enlarged pool of reviewers. Fortunately, our professional networks generously assisted, and IJT was able to quickly recruit many more expert reviewers. 
We cannot over-state the contributions that volunteer reviewers make to a journal, its authors, and to current and future readers. Discerning reviewers are essential to the quality control of every journal. The purpose of an IJT review is not just to advise the editors on whether to publish an article. Most importantly, reviewers dig deep inside an article and if needed, to advise authors how to elevate the quality of their work. We are most grateful to an assiduous group of new and returning anonymous reviewers, about whose efforts our authors routinely offer appreciation. One experienced scholar recently wrote: “Again, we want to pass on our sincere thank you for considering this submission and what a reviewer this is! They are exceptional and have provided great feedback.”
The current issue of the multi-disciplinary International Journal of Telerehabilitation (IJT) features impactful research that spans rehabilitation disciplines and medical diagnoses. Among the eleven curated articles, three detail how telerehabilitation is strategically deployed in parts of three underserved regions: Brazil, Croatia, and Nigeria. IJT reviewers and editors are keenly aware that cultural and socioeconomic variables influence how telerehabilitation is most appropriately defined and creatively administered in different cultures. We are confident that IJT readers will absorb the content in these articles with cultural humility and recognize that the parameters of telerehabilitation are best locally determined. We invite even more work from non-US countries. 
Acknowledgements
We are grateful for the generous efforts of the IJT reviewers, many of whom have reviewed prospective IJT articles for over a decade.  Sections Editor, William E. Janes, OTD, MSCI, OTR/L has been a very impactful reviewer and support to many IJT authors.
Thank you also to the publisher of IJT, the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh. We applaud the expertise and the professionalism of Vanessa Gabler, Electronic Publications Manager, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, for her long-term work with IJT. 
IJT is currently sponsored by the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Information and Communication Technology Access at the University of Pittsburgh. The RERC is funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). Volumes 1-7 were sponsored by the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Telerehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh.
Call for SuBmissions
We cordially invite submissions to the Spring 2021 issue in mid-January 2021. IJT accepts original research, case studies, viewpoints, technology reviews, book reviews, and country reports that detail the status of telerehabilitation. 

Sincerely,
Ellen R. Cohn, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA-F 
IJT Editor 
Jana Cason, DHSc, OTR/L, FAOTA 
Senior Associate Editor