In the last issue of CoDAS this year, we would like to show our gratitude to the seriousness and commitment of the Brazilian researcher toward scientific production, even in this time of recession in the financial support to research in Brazil. Throughout 2015, CoDAS received 280 articles for the evaluation process, including some international papers. According to predefined and rigorous criteria, focusing on new indexations, we published 93 articles in 2015 and maintained our periodicity. Our goal was reached, ensuring the current quality of the journal and leading us to the established goals. Therefore, we expect to keep counting on the scientific community in this process, hoping that the destination of the research funds in the current political situation of the country can change fast. To help the scientific community to visualize new perspectives, in this issue the guest Editorial was written by the members of the Advisory Committee of Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPQ). This issue has 15 articles: 4 in the field of Audiology, 4 regarding Language, 3 about Orofacial Motricity, 1 about Dysphagia, 2 regarding Voice and 1 about Public Health. Of these, 13 are original articles, one case study and two reviews. Samelli, Rocha, Theodósio, Moreira and Neves-Lobo, in the paper "Training on hearing protector insertion improves noise attenuation", through the objective and subjective methods, studied the efficacy of the attenuation of hearing aid devices in two groups; and concluded that both were efficient. Ribeiro, Scharlach and Pinheiro, in the article "Assessment of temporal aspects in popular singers", investigated the temporal processing of popular singers who do or do not play a musical instrument, and observed there were differences in the temporal processing of singers who only sing and those who also play musical instruments. Chaves, Libardi, Agostinho-Pesse, Morettin and Alvarenga, in the study about "Tele-health: assessment of websites on newborn hearing screening in Portuguese Language", analyzed the technical aspects of websites on neonatal hearing screening in Portuguese, and observed it is necessary to revise several items. Jorge, Levy and Granato, in the paper "Cultural Adaptation of the Family Quality of Life Scale for the Brazilian Portuguese", culturally adapted the scale and observed it is easy to apply, with satisfactory reliability. Amaral, Rodrigues, Furlan, Vicente and Motta, in the article "Speech-Language and Nutritional Sciences in hospital environment: analysis of terminology of food consistencies classification", analyzed the agreement between speech language pathologists and nutritionists in the standardization of food consistencies in the hospital environment; they concluded that there are disagreements, and that these may compromise the patients' recovery. Kerr, Pagliarin, Mineiro, Ferre, Joanette and Fonseca, in the paper "Montreal Communication Evaluation Battery - Portuguese version: age and education effects", studied the effect of age and education and concluded that these variables influence the communication performance. Kida, Ávila and Capellini, in the article "Syntactic markers in the oral retelling of dyslexic students", characterized the syntactic markers in oral retelling of dyslexic students during a text-reading task and observed that this population has lower grammar skills. In the article "Profile of language and cognitive functions in children with dyslexia in speakers of Brazilian Portuguese", the authors Barbosa, Rodrigues, Toledo-Piza, Navas and Bueno analyzed the profile of language and cognitive skills of children with dyslexia; and concluded that the profile of phonological deficit is the main change of the population. In the study "Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the protocol of orofacial myofunctional evaluation with scores for Italian language", the authors Felício, Folha, Ferreira, Paskay and Sforza did the translation and cross-cultural adaptation of this instrument of oral motricity assessment. Fukushiro, Ferlin, Yamashita and Trindade, in the article "Influence of pharyngeal flap surgery on nasality and nasalance scores of nasal sounds production in individuals with cleft lip and palate", analyzed the influence of pharyngeal flap surgery to manage velopharyngeal insufficiency and observed that the surgery had an impact on speech production. Penteado, Silva and Montebello, in the article "Voice, stress, work and quality of life of soccer coaches and physical trainers", related stress, work and quality of life in the voice of coaches and physical soccer trainers; they concluded that these variables are related in the professional categories. Zambom, Moreti, Vargas and Behlau, in the article "Efficiency and cutoff values of the Voice Activity and Participation Profile for nonteachers and teachers", studied the characteristics of efficiency and cutoff values in the dimensions of the Voice Activity and Participation Profile, which discriminate individuals with and without dysphonia and observe if the cutoff point remains the same for teachers; they concluded there are differences in terms of cutoff points. Corrêa and Berretin-Félix, in the case report about "Myofunctional therapy applied to upper airway resistance syndrome: a case report", presented the results found in different pre and post-phonotherapy. In the review "Tools for the assessment of childhood apraxia of speech", the authors Gubiani, Pagliarin and Keske-Soares presented an analysis about the instruments and concluded that even though there are many, they are not available and validated for the Brazilian population. To conclude, in the review "Training of Community Health Agents in health hearing children: current perspectives" the authors Castro and Zucki studied the training of Community Health Agents in the field of children's hearing health and concluded that different types of teaching are used.
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