Anna Gagat-Matuła, PhD, is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Special Needs Education of the Pedagogical University of Cracow and a statistician, clinical and personality psychologist, criminal forensic psychologist, a speech therapist, oligophrenopedagog, tyflopedagog, early school educator, a family mediator in litigations, a therapist in the scope of such concepts as applied behaviour analysis (behavioural psychology), sensory integration, biofeedback, Hallwick and Weronika Sherborne. She also works at the Speciality Care Clinic for Persons with Childhood Autism and is author of over 40 scientific works published in ranked journals and of monographs, including two monographs entitled ‘Functioning of a Temporarily Single Parent Family System Due to Migration from the Perspective of Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy’, Oficyna Wydawnicza Impuls, Cracow, 2016. She is a speaker at numerous scientific conferences in Poland and abroad, e.g., in Australia, Japan, USA, Italy and Germany and has been awarded multiple times with grants for talented scientists.