Editorial

Abstract

The first specialties of speech therapy emerged 20 years ago with resolution no. 156/96 of the Brazilian Federal Council of Speech Therapy. The creation of specialties and expert title was a milestone for the construction of new roads of our science. With the inclusion of new specialties in 2006, and more recently, in 2014, our science has conquered many professional spaces. As a result, advanced perspectives emerged for research within the areas the specialty encompasses.Volume 18 (2), Revista CEFAC -Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences and Education Journal provides 25 articles that confirm the growth of speech therapy in different areas and show how the specialties contribute to studies in the Human Communication Health area, our object of study.Audiology is represented by six original articles: newborn hearing screening program, peri intraventricular hemorrhage in newborns, habits and hearing complaints in adolescents, and temporal resolution in the elderly are issues these articles present. The interrelationship of Audiology and Language areas is present in 1 of them, with the topic clustering and switching in the hearing impaired.This volume presents 5 articles published on Orofacial Motricity. Out of these, 4 are original ones, with issues related to post acute stroke swallowing, difficulty eating, temporomandibular dysfunction, nasalance, and pharyngeal fricative consonants. The review article introduces the topic of scientific production in Orofacial Motricity.Issues such as rapid automatic naming in schoolers, impact of Intergenerational dialogic activities and difficulties in the writing of children are present in articles in the area of Language, which counts as another article showing the interrelation with the area of Audiology, with the theme language change and auditory processing. Brief communication addresses cases of antisocial tendency and completes the 5 language articles.Researchers in the field of Voice contribute to this volume with 5 articles, 4 being original ones, with topics such as teachers´ voice and emotion, selfperception of the glottal function and teachers´ perceptive-auditory analysis, maximum phonation time and its relationship with BMI and gender, in children, and vocal and physical expressiveness in television journalism. The fifth article is a review on vocal speech therapy and respiratory physiotherapy, in the healthy elderly.With 1 article per area, Dysphagia and Public Health present articles with the themes Speech Therapy in cardiac newborns and noise and quality of life in gas stations workers. EditorialRev. CEFAC.