EKO experts share more tips to create an abstract with impact

September 01, 2026

Hone the art of abstract writing at this EKO webinar

Register for the September 10th webinar 

Ontario’s developmental health sector is known for innovation. We have a track record of implementing successful responses that address challenges—clinical, operational, and corporate. As a sector that’s also known for collaboration, sharing evidence-based advances is in our DNA. We all want to share our solutions with colleagues, so kids with disabilities and developmental needs and their families live their best lives.

That means we need to know how to communicate our solutions or findings. We commonly do this through posters and presentations, shared at conferences—a signal achievement of any researcher, trainee, or professional. The first step is explaining the importance and novelty. That requires an abstract.

Abstracts are the hook to reel your audience into attending your session or viewing your poster. So submitting a quality abstract matters!

Join us for the Submit the Best Abstract Possible webinar on September 10th from 2:00 to 2:45 pm EDT. This is the final session in our two-webinar program for the EKO Spring Symposium 2027 call for abstracts.

Two abstract experts—June Coan-Brill, PhD Candidate in the School of Communication Sciences & Disorders and Department of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences at Western University and Anchel Krishna, Director, Strategy, Communication and Engagement at Children’s Treatment Network—will provide strategies for crafting impactful, well-structured abstracts that gain reviewers’ attention in the first few sentences and build a convincing argument. Both June and Anchel have experience sitting on the EKO Spring Symposium Working Group and have invaluable insight into what we are looking for in successful submissions.

This program benefits first-time abstract submitters as well as seasoned professionals keen to know more about the art of abstract writing.

Learn more and register for the second and final webinar with the link above. 

Thank you to Brendan Wylie-Toal and Anchel Krishna for hosting the first webinar in July! Their guidance and advice were well-received and are highly relevant; key takeaways can be accessed with the registration link above. 

Can’t make it to the final session? We’ll share the recording on the EKO Spring Symposium 2027 webpages with some highlights until the abstract deadline on October 9, 2026.