Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology along with Disability and Rehabilitation seek to encourage a better understanding of all aspects of disability and to promote rehabilitation science, practice and policy aspects of the rehabilitation process. Taken together, both journals represent an important forum for the dissemination and exchange of ideas amongst global health practitioners and researchers.
The mission of Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology is to advance the practice and science of interdisciplinary and integrative assistive technology service delivery and product design internationally so that persons with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and challenges to the performance of activities and participation in life roles, achieve enhanced functioning and life quality.
Assistive technology focuses on both equipping individuals with the most appropriate technologies and also removing barriers to functioning that exist in the environment. Topics range from everyday/mainstream to specialized devices, and include: exoskeletons and robotics; smart homes; information and communication technologies and computerized systems; ergonomics; universal design; ambient assistive technology; tele-rehabilitation; job and environmental accommodations; and methods of service delivery.
Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology is an international and multidisciplinary journal, published eight times a year. The Journal publishes review articles and original research on assistive technology devices, services, user experiences, education and training, and policies. The journal also publishes supplements, special issues and special sections. Because the field is broad, submissions include experimental investigations, survey research, case studies, systematic reviews and product development and testing. Theoretical and conceptual papers and the discussion of professional issues and international/national policies and standards are also published.
Subscribers to Disability and Rehabilitation receive Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology as part of their subscription, totaling 32 issues per year.
83 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
13 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
32% acceptance rate
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in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
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calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
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Editorial Board:
Europe David Banes - Access and Inclusion, United Kingdom Johan Borg - Lund University, Sweden Gerald Craddock - Centre for Excellence in Universal Design, Ireland Mojca Debeljak - University Rehabilitation Institute, Republic of Slovenia Lorenzo Desideri - Regional Centre for Assistive Technology – Assistive Technology Living Lab, Italy Stefano Federici - University of Perugia, Italy Katerina Mavrou - European University Cyprus, Cyprus
North America Jennifer Boger - University of Waterloo, Canada Tom Chau - Bloorview Research Institute, Canada Diane M. Collins - University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA Tilak Dutta - KITE | Toronto Rehab | University Health Network, Institute of Biomedical Engineering | University of Toronto, Canada Mary Goldberg - Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Department of Rehabilitation Science & Technology | Institute for Clinical Research Education, University of Pittsburgh/ International Society of Wheelchair Professionals | Initiative to Mobilize Partnerships for Successful Assistive Technology Translation, USA Shirley Groer – Veterans Health Administration Research and Development, USA Heidi Hortsmann Koester - Koester Performance Research, USA Linda Resnick - Providence (Rhode Island) Veterans Administration Medical Center, USA Jacqueline Dawn Ripat - University of Manitoba, Canada Sharon Eve Sonenblum - Emory University, USA R. Lee Kirby - Dalhousie University, Canada
Africa Surona Visagie - Stellenbosch University, South Africa
South America Ligia Maria Presumido Braccialli - Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Brasil
Asia and Australia Takenobu Inoue- National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Japan Natasha A. Layton - Rehabilitation, Ageing and Independent Living Research Centre Monash University, Australia Suraj Singh Senjam - RP Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India Ang Wei Tech - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Patricia Wielandt - James Cook University, Australia
Middle East Moran Ran - www.atvisor.ai, Israel
Abstracting and indexing
Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology is abstracted and indexed in CINAHL; CSA (ASSIA, Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts, PAIS International, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts), Educational Research Abstracts, Ergonomics Abstracts, Family Index Database, Emerging Sources Citation Index, PubMed/MEDLINE, PEDro, PsycINFO, RECAL and Scopus.
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