Brazilian Congress on Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences: history, organization and scientific production

Abstract

Objective: to present the history of the Brazilian Speech Therapy and Audiology Congress, exposing its organization and characterizing part of the scientific production published in its annals in the last ten years. Methods: a theoretical, descriptive-exploratory study, with a bibliographic data source. The analysis was based on data available on the website of the Brazilian Society of Speech Therapy and Audiology, and restricted to the last ten years. The findings considered the year of publication, the publication category and the study area. The statistical analysis applied the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. Results: since 2006 eleven specialties have been recognized. The areas available for submitting papers changed between 2008 and 2011. From 2012 to 2017, 7,296 participants and 5,166 publications were identified. A decrease in both publications and participants is seen since 2014. In 2017, the number of papers was higher than the number of participants. Submissions in the "thesis/dissertation" category increased by 110%. Papers of a specific field related to the human voice presented the highest number of papers in the period. Conclusion: the increase in the number of specialists, added to technological advances, may partially justify a reduction in the number of participants; however, new relocations are necessary as a way to keep the event up to date and attractive, in face of the profession’s new trends.

Analysis of Brazilian scientific production in Orofacial Motricity

“…The elevated number of this kind of study can be explained by selected cuts of the original studies and even due to the ease of writing it, considering the events, usually, allow abridgments of a maximum of 500 words, which facilitates in its elaboration. Another factor that can influence the reduced number of complete articles is the complexity of its writing, with a higher demand of theory foundation and excellence of the technical writing, factors that may not be present in the academic graduation of many speech therapists and college students 16,31,32 .…”

“…This may be due to the event being more specific to the OM area. However, the SBFa conference presents the biggest number of works in the last years (n=457), the OM area occupying third place, according to a 2019 study 31 . Supposed that the number of presented studies in EBMO and the SBFa conference remains the same, over two years, the Brazilian Gathering of OM would overcome the number of works presented in the CBFa.…”