EDITORIAL

With great satisfaction, I deliver the sixth with 35 scientific contributions, including 28 original articles, 3 literature review articles, 3 case reports and 1 special article in the fields of audiology, language, public health, orofacial motricity and voice.

As for the original articles, Blasca, Picolini, Silva, Campos, Pinto, Brasolotto, Alvarenga and Maximino present the first contribution on the Young doctor Bauru project: training of high school students in hearing health. The second contribution is from Dantas and Higuchi, on the Health professionals approach to the hearing loss prevention programme in the Manaus industrial pole. Cruz, Andrade and Gil wrote the third contribution on the Effectiveness of formal auditory training in adults with auditory processing disorder. The fourth contribution is from Matos and Frota on The influence of sensoryneural hearing loss on temporal ordering.

Mondelli, Ventura and Feniman have the fifth contribution on the Occurrence of unilateral hearing loss in patients with cleft lip and palate. Vertigo complaint and regular physical activity in the elderly is the sixth contribution written by Bazoni, Moreira, Mendes, Melo, Teixeira and Marchiori. Lindau, Delecrode and Cardoso present the seventh contribution Tympanometric findings in a group of students. The subject Noise in a rooming-in ambience: perception of users and nursing professionals is the eighth contribution by Pivatto and Gonçalves.

The study entitled Evaluation of cognitive and social-affective development of children with hearing loss is the ninth contribution from the authors Tabaquim, Nardi, Ferrari, Moretti, Yamada and Bevilacqua. Costa, Aurélio, Rodrigues and Silva present the tenth contribution entitled Standardization of the auditory brainstem response in newborns. The eleventh contribution Santos, Seligman, Souza and Rossi on Exposure to sound pressure levels in the classroom, acoustic immittance and SSW test in students of 3º and 4º degree of elementary school.

The twelfth contribution Ortiz and Marinelli discuss the Investigation of swallowing complaints in aphasic patients. Knowledge of nursing professionals about the care to dysphagic patients in intensive care units is the thirteenth contribution from Albini, Soares, Wolf and Gonçalves. The study entitled Preference side masticatory and facial symmetry In total laryngectomy: clinical and electromyographic study is the fourteenth contribution Nascimento, Lima, Freitas, Silva, Balata, Cunha and Silva. Ries, Schmidt, Briesemeister and Schivinski presented the fifteenth study on Association between masticatory activity and gross motor function, spasticity and topographic classification in cerebral palsy.

The sixteenth contribution by Monti, Botega, Lima and Kubota is on Demand for speech therapy intervention in neonatal unit of a teaching hospital. The study entitled The Relation between child malnutrition and orofacial anthropometry is the seventeenth contribution authored by Kusniec, Tambellini, Giacomeli, Cattoni e Rehder. Ferreira, Maciel, Castro and Lemos present the eighteenth contribution Study of communicative relations in the management process of a health institution.

Authors Escarce, Araújo, Friche and Motta present the nineteenth contribution on Influence of guidance about breastfeeding in the behavior of a university hospital users. The twenty contribution is on the An analysis of dissertations and thesis on cochlear implant in the period of 2000 to 2010 written by Barbosa, Van Munster and Costa. The theme Professional trajectory of graduates in speech, language and hearing sciences authored by Teixeira, Rodrigues, Santos, Cardoso, Gama and Resende is the twenty-first contribution.

The twenty-second contribution is about Evaluation of the efficacy of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) in the treatment of temporomandibular disorders: a randomized clinical trial from the authors Catão, Oliveira, Costa and Carneiro. The article Expression of certainty and doubt in stuttering: a study of the temporal features of speech from the authors Celeste and Reis is the twenty-third contribution. Granzotti, Negrini, Fukuda and Takayanagui present the twenty-fourth contribution entitled Language aspects of children infected with HIV. Speech fluency profile: comparative analysis between the familial and sporadic persistent developmental stuttering is the twenty-fifth contribution from the authors Oliveira, Fiorin, Nogueira e Laroza.

The twenty-sixth contribution is from Berberian, Bortolozzi, Massi, Biscouto, Enjiu and Oliveira entitled Knowledge analysis of teachers working in elementary school on the written language from the perspective of literacy proficiency. Rosa Neto, Xavier and Santos present the theme Characterization of reading and writing. The twenty-eighth contribution is on the Semantic changes in the statements of children in the process of development of oral language: preliminary study from Silva e Brito.

Illness, disability or cultural identity? Interpretation of deafness and answers from the Spanish educational system is a special article and the twenty-ninth contribution from the authors López-González and Llorent.

The literature review article entitled Binaural interference in hearing ids fitting process written by Azevedo, Vaucher, Duarte, Biaggio and Costa is the thirtieth contribution. Semioccluded vocal tract exercises is the thirty-first contribution authored by Lima, Christmann, Cielo and Brum. The thirty-second contribution is from Guimarães and Oda entitled Child language assessment tools: applicability to handicapped.

The thirty-third contribution entitled Efficiency of myofunctional therapy in cases of phonological, phonetic and phonetic-phonological disorders is from Costa, Mezzomo e Keske-Soares. The thirty-fourth contribution is a case report authored by Kunst, Oliveira, Costa, Wiethan and Mota entitled Speech therapy effectiveness in a case of expressive aphasia resulting from stroke. The thirty-fifth and final contribution is authored by Sales, Cola, Jorge, Peres, Santos, Giacheti and Silva on Quantitative analysis of oropharyngeal swallowing in neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis with gastrostomy: case report.

I conclude this editorial wishing a Merry Christmas and a Happy New!! Good reading for everyone!

Profa. Dra. Simone Aparecida Capellini

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  24 Jan 2014
• Date of issue
  Dec 2013