Available Formats for your abstract

The topics of all formats should be based around the congress theme “From Science to Practice: Improving mental health in persons with IDD”

Oral Presentations

• Presenters should point out the impact of their research for everyday lives of persons with IDD within their networks.
• The scientific committee will arrange all submissions to form a free symposium.
• Duration of each presentation: 15-20 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion
• Overall duration: 90 minutes (max. 4 presentations)

Solicited Symposia

• Developed by a group of three to four colleagues who present and debate their research related to an overall topic.
• Please submit 3-4 abstracts separately and indicate the symposium and responsible chair
• Duration of each presentation: 15-20 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion
• Overall duration: 90 minutes (max. 4 presentations)

Co-Productive Symposia

• Typically generated by a group of up to five stakeholders.
• Emphasis on the principles of co-production, i.e. recognition of service users and other stakeholders as being assets in developing and delivering approaches based on people’s capacities rather than deficiencies.
• Working in mutual partnerships and networks in which there is a sharing of roles and in which professionals act as catalysts for change.
• In the abstract, please cover the aims of the session in the results/aims section as well as the participants and their background in the method section
• Overall duration: 90 minutes

Roundtable Discussions

• Topics covering varied and uncertain opinions often based on missing and/or inconsistent evidence.
• The submitting author selects a theme and a limited number of debating experts and puts forward an abstract with the overall theme (e.g. “Ageing with IDD – A privilege or a burden?”)
• In the abstract, the main positions and arguments should be summarized in the background section, the aims within the results/aims section as well as the names of the debaters in the author section.
• The submitting authorwill co-chair and moderate the roundtable by opening the floor and include the audience
• Duration: 45 minutes