Prof. Dr. Paula Sterkenburg has a chair by special appointment at the Department of Clinical Child and Family Studies of the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences and the Amsterdam Public Health (APH) research centre of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, in the Netherlands on ‘Persons with a visual or visual-and-intellectual disability, social relations and ICT’. She is a licensed psychologist/therapist and works at Bartiméus Department of Assessment and Treatment in Doorn.