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Editorial
It is with satisfaction that we present the second installment of Audiology - Communi-cation Research (ACR) with 12 important contributions in various fields of Speech, Language and Hearing science. In this fascicle of the journal 11 Original Articles and 1 Case Report are being published: five are articles on Audiology, four articles on Language, one article on Orofacial Motricity, one article on Voice, and one on Otoneurology. We are certain that all of them will be highly appreciated by the readers, for they reflect a diverse panorama of our field of research.
The Audiology studies represent the largest contribution from this issue, with five published articles. The first of them by Silva, Luz and Gil studied the Noise in the hospital
setting: impact on quality of life. The second article is from Cruz, Lima, Santos, Duarte,
Lebrão and Ramos-Cerqueira who studied the Hearing aid use among the elderly: SABE
study – health, well-being and aging survey. The third article written by Buarque,
Braz-arotto, Cavalcanti, Lima Júnior, Lima and Ferreira is titled Auditory performance, during
a period of time in cochlear implant users with post lingual hearing loss. The fourth
article is titledStudy of acoustic immittance measures with probe tone of 226 and 1000
Hz in neonatesand isfrom the authors Teixeira, Sleifer, Pauletti and Krimberg. In the fifth
article the authors Lacerda, Soares, Gonçalves, Lopes and Testoni approaches Educational
workshops as a strategy to promote hearing heath in adolescents: an exploratory study.
There are four articles from the field of Language, and the first of them is Assessment
of the awareness of dyscalculia among educators which was written by Dias, Pereira and
Borsel. The second is a study from Gonçalves, Santos, Neves, Nicolielo, Bispo, Crenitte and Lopes-Herrera which regards the Phonological awareness in children from public
schools and particularly during the process of literacy. The third article is titled
Expres-sive vocabulary and regional variables in a sample of students from Maceió and is from
Medeiros, Valença, Guimarães and Costa. The fourth article concerns the Disfluencies and speech rate in spontaneous production and in oral reading in people who stutter and
who do not stutter and has Pinto, Schiefer and Ávila as authors.
The Voice field contributed with one article written by Buosi, Ferreira and Momensohn-Santos with the title Auditory perception of teachers with voice disorders.
The Oral Motricity field study from Fukushiro, Zwicker, Genaro, Yamashita and Trin-dade is titled Nasopharyngeal dimensions and respiratory symptoms after pharyngeal
flap surgery in children and adults.
Finally, in the case study by Zeigelboim, Souza, Mengelberg, Teive and Liberalesso the authors investigated the Vestibular rehabilitation with virtual reality in spinocerebellar
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Due to the recent process for changing the chancellery and journal’s title we recog-nize that are still a few more adjustments to be done and, when presenting this fascicle we would like to thank the fundamental collaboration of the authors, reviewers and readers, for understanding any inconveniences that might have happened during this transition. In spite of our efforts to manage the journal needs and control the contingencies that are inherent to any transition process, we still were not able to reach the goal we had proposed to ourselves. We are working hard to make all the necessary adjustments to normalize this publication frequency as soon as possible.
We remain engaged and committed with the plans for development, strengthen and internationalization of the ACR and we hope to count with the efforts of all, authors with the submission of your articles; associated editors, editorial body and reviewers with the rapid execution in issuing its reviews; and the reader who is able to assist us with suggestions and criticisms.
Eliane Schochat and Kátia de Almeida
