PAULA STERKENBURG – MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN PEOPLE WITH SEVERE TO MODERATE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY: PREVALENCE, RISK FACTORS AND TREATMENT OPTIONS

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Introduction Paula Sterkenburg

Professor Paula Sterkenburg is endowed chair ‘People with a visual or visual and intellectual disability; social relations & ICT’ at VU University Amsterdam. The chair was established by the Bartiméus Foundation and the Bartiméus Fund. The chair links two care areas, care for people with a visual disability and care for people with a visual and mental disability. In addition, the chair links science and practice by underpinning applications and testing them in practice. She is coordinator of the academic workshop ‘Social Relationships and Attachment’ of Bartiméus, Ons Tweede Thuis, Vrije Universiteit. Current projects include: ‘EMB and ICT’; ‘Social relations and ICT’; ‘Robot Bart stops brooding’; ‘Stimulation rug for children with visual impairment’. https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/paula-sterkenburg/publications/