Oral Communication sessions consist of a group of talks within a theme by individual participants (including questions and answers) and will be scheduled in concurrent sessions of 60-minutes.  On submission of the abstract, authors are required to mention their own preference for Oral Communication or Scientific Poster presentation, but the final decision will be at the discretion of the Scientific Congress committee.

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The maximum word count of an abstract is 250 words. Abstract content should be consistent scientific and ethical standards, and the writing style should be clear and grammatically sound. The information presented should be self-contained (have in mind that many people may only read the abstract, not actually see the presentation). Please note that abstracts reporting Results or Conclusions without reporting data will be rejected. Authors are encouraged to include persons with lived experience in the authorship. Please do not include references, figures or tables in the abstract.

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A selection of the best 250 abstracts will be published and archived in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, the official journal of the EACD.

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Please structure your abstract using the following headings:

• Introduction (background and research question)

• Participants and methods (providing explicit information)

• Results (including actual data and statistical significance if appropriate)

• Conclusion (interpretation and perspectives: ‘So what?’, ‘What now?’)​

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We will, however, also consider abstracts presenting innovative study protocols. Such abstracts should be structured with ‘Introduction’ and ‘Participants and Methods’ of the study, and include ‘Study Protocol’ in the title.

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