This is CEFAC´s first volume (Revista CEFAC - Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences and Education Journal), with ABRAMO's editorial - Orofacial Motricity Brazilian Association.
ABRAMO was officially born in 2014, during the Brazilian Speech Therapy Congress, in Joinville, SC, as an initiative of a group comprising clinicians, teachers and researchers, aiming at promoting Orofacial Motricity through social actions of dissemination and events promotion.
It is noteworthy that the events organized by these groups predate the association's official creation. In 2008, the first Brazilian Orofacial Motricity Meeting was held in Goiania, GO, and other meetings have been held in different Brazilian cities ever since: 2009, in Recife, PE; 2010, in Belo Horizonte, MG; 2011, in Natal, RN; 2012, in Curitiba, PR; 2013, in Fortaleza, CE; 2014, São Paulo, SP, and in 2015, in João Pessoa, PB. The 9th Brazilian Orofacial Motricity Meeting will take place in June, 3-4, 2016, in Bauru, SP.
All this history reaffirms ABRAMO's strengthening over the years. The responsibility of CEFAC Journal's publication further highlights the association´s growth. A scientific institution must as well be committed to disseminating and promoting the academic research in its area. ABRAMO and CEFAC Journal go beyond this limit as they support the publishing of articles in all areas of speech therapy and related sciences.
Volume 18(1) brings 35 articles. The areas of audiology and language are represented by seven articles each. Public Health and Voice areas have five articles each. Four articles are in the Orofacial Motricity area, two in General Speech Therapy, and one in each area of Dysphagia, Educational Speech Therapy and themes of related areas. The interdisciplinary approach is also featured in an article in the Orofacial Motricity and Dysphagia areas, and in an article in the areas of Voice and Public Health.
The diversity of the scientific production in the regions of Brazil is also a characteristic of this volume, with works of the Northeast, Southeast and South regions.
Finally, we would like to invite clinicians, students and researchers to attend the Meeting, this coming June, in Bauru, SP, and celebrate one more ABRAMO's annual event, with a toast to the continuity of our journal.
Hilton Justino da Silva e Giédre Berretin-Felix Chief Editors
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
Jan-Feb 2016
