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This issue presents 15 contributions, 13 original articles, one brief communication and one case report concerning the several speech language pathology and audiology specialties, especially the ield of writing and reading, which is extremely challenging and multidisciplinary.
The ield of voice contributed with two articles, being one of them international. The study by Vaiano, Guerrieri and Behlau analyzed the presence of body pain in erudite choristers and concluded that the low occurrence in this population suggests that healthy vocal use allied to trained respiratory muscles and vocal production can be a protective factor for the development of vocal disorders. The study by Barsties, Verfaillie, Roy and Marin analyzed the impact of weight and volume of body fat on many voice parameters, concluding that these measurements seem to inluence vocal quality, vocal aerodynamics and tessitura.
The ield of language contributed with three very interesting articles. One concerned the communication of 11 deaf-blind adults, with Usher syndrome, by Figueiredo, Chiari and Goulart, and there are few available studies on this subject. The authors presented the challenges that exist in the daily activities of these individuals, in which alternative forms of communication are used when it is not possible to use the oral communication. The second study, by Bei-Lopes, Bacchin and Cáceres, analyzed the mean time of silent pauses in narratives of children and how much the complexity of the story inluences their production, concluding that individuals with a speciic language disorder presented longer silent pauses in their emissions. The third study, a brief communication by Amato, Santos, Barbosa and Fernandes, reports the preliminary results of language therapy in 142 children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders, reinforcing the importance of including information regarding each intervention process into a reliable and accessible registration system, in order to ensure the association of information and to enable studies with major populations, which is not common in this ield’s literature.
The specialty of writing and reading contributed with four articles, being three of them original studies and one case report. The irst one, by Nepomuceno and Ávila, analyzed the performance of students aged between 7 and 10 years old in reading decoding tasks, and the conclusion was that the normal group was uniform and superior to the group with dificulties reading, with worse performances in reading segmented items, espe-cially pseudowords. The second study, by Germano, Pinheiro, Okuda and Capellini, analyzed students with attention deicit hyperactivity disorder, and concluded there are dificulties in the visual-motor perception that can be attributed not to a primary deicit, but to a phenomenon secondary to inattention that directly interferes in the performance of visual-motor perception. The third article, by Dellisa and Navas, evaluated the reading performance of students from several grades, with different types of texts, and emphasized that it is essential to care for the selection of texts inserted in reading assessment instruments, both in relation to psycholinguistic parameters and cognitive demand. The last article related to writing and reading is the interesting report of six boys diagnosed with hyperlexia, by Lamônica, Gejão, Prado and Ferreira, pointing out to the dificulties to respond to the writing subtest, with limitations to understand the read text, besides the impairment in other areas of language development, added to altered social adaptation, interactive and restrictive behaviors.
The ield of audiology contributed with a cross-sectional retrospective study by Zeigelboim, Teive, Santos, Arruda, Jurkiewicz, Mengelberg, França and Marques on the audiological and electrophysiological hearing evaluation in spinocerebellar ataxia. The authors concluded that the most evident changes were descending audiometric coniguration from the frequency of 4 kHz, absence of acoustic relex in the frequencies of 3 and 4 kHz, bilaterally, and, in the electrophysiological evaluation, 50% of the patients presented changes, especially concerning the increasing latency of waves I, III and V and of the interval in interpeaks I-III, I-V and III-V.
The dysphagia specialty contributed with three articles. The irst one, by Luchesi, Kitamura and Mourão, veriied the inluence of the physiopathological features of Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on the choice of therapeutic approaches for dysphagia, concluding that compensatory and sensory maneuvers are the most indicated ones in both situations, and that time of disease did not interfere in therapeutic approaches. The second article, by Lima, Hermont and Friche, pointed out to the eficacy of nutritive and non-nutritive sucking
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stimuli in 64 newly born infants in response to pain, proving that both types of stimulation are eficient to relieve pain. The last article, by Magalhães Jr, Pernambuco, Souza, Ferreira and Lima, presents the translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the protocol Northwestern Dysphagia Patient Check Sheet (NDPCS) to Brazilian Portuguese, thus obtaining the equivalence between the original and the translated instrument, which is going through the validation process.
The orofacial motricity specialty contributed with a study by Weber, Corrêa, Bolzan, Ferreira, Soares and Silva, which assessed mastication and deglutition in women with temporomandibular dysfunction (TMD), concluding that, among women, TDM produces more orofacial myofunctional changes and a larger distance between the hyoid bone and the mandible, which may justify the atypical behavior of tongue and lips.
The collective health ield collaborated with a study on the speech language pathologist practice in the centers that support family health (Núcleos de Apoio à Saúde da Família – NASF) in the cities of the state of Paraíba, in Brazil, by Costa, Alcântara, Alves, Lopes, Silva and Sá. From semidirect interviews, they concluded that the work of a speech language pathologist is in a nuclear perspective, and in order to be effective from the point of view of collective health, it is important to overcome barriers so it can be characterized for the intersection between the center and the ield work.
One more step of CoDAS’ evolution is being implemented: the replacement of the SciELO system by ScholarOne, a change that is part of the plans of SciELO itself for all the journals from the health ield. It is a new period of adaptation for all of those who are involved, so we count on your usual understanding and coop-eration. These are new experiences which will certainly lead to some doubts, laws and frustrations, but which will also lead to the use of a more eficient and compatible system for the internationalization of this publication. In this sense, it is worth to mention that even though the communication in the system is in English, the user can write in Portuguese in any action of the system (references, opinions, doubts and suggestions). Another innovation is that, in the new process, when the authors submit a manuscript, they can suggest two names of revisers of their choice, if they wish to, or even two names of revisers they would not like their manuscript to be sent to. These indications are not mandatory, and it will always be up to the editors to accept these suggestions or not. We are sure that this new adaptation period will be short, and that gains will compensate for possible frustrations. We would appreciate any constructive criticism and suggestions. We invite all of you to the panel on editorial activity in Congresso Brasileiro de Fonoaudiologia.
A few days ago, Speech Language Pathology and Audiology was gathered, once again, to resignify a moment of great loss and sadness by deeply recognizing the priceless contribution of dear Prof. Dr. Maria Cecília Bevilacqua, who left us on July 29 after a restless struggle that lasted for almost a decade, during which she won numberless battles, proving the quality of the iber she was made of. Up until the last moments of her life, she fought for Speech Language Pathology and Audiology and for the insertion of the deaf person in the current society, which is competitive, agitated and challenging. Symbolically, one of her last actions was amongst the ministries, in Brasília. She had a fulilling, brilliant career, and with that she stood out in all of her functions and attributions. With amazing intelligence, she performed clinical practice with generosity, taught with wisdom, coordinated teams, departments and courses with servile authority, was a peer reviewer for all the Brazilian scientiic journals and played an exquisite role in education. Being a visionary, she led national and international projects with ambitious goals. The feeling of loss is only overcome by the certainty that it was a privilege to have shared her time, her lessons and her example. To the dear Prof. Dr. Orozimbo Alves Costa and his family, our deepest condolences.
