Editorial

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the SciELO Program started using the CC-BY license as standard to distribute the Open Access for the Brazil SciELO collection. As editors in chief of CoDAS, we respect that decision, since it is aligned with the Open Access policies adopted by the main international journals in order to maximize the options of access and reuse of papers. The Open Access for papers is one of the indexation criteria of SciELO, and is carried out by the Creative commons (CC) system, which encourage the reuse and distribution of indexed files. The new license, identified as CC-BY, replaces the CC-BY-NC, which was previously used. This difference guarantees more freedom to reuse the contents and ensures that the authorship credit is attributed to the author or authors, to the journal or to any other mean where the article was originally published. We believe in the importance of disseminating scientific production without restrictions, both for the national and the international community. This is the only way we can reach higher levels of excellence. In this issue of CoDAS, 27(4), there are two editorials. One of them is from the Scientific Board from the Brazilian Society of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, regarding the Brazilian Congress of 2015; the issue also includes articles from seven Brazilian states and ten different institutions. There are 14 articles, 4 in the field of Audiology and 4 regarding Language; 4 approach Orofacial Motricity, and 2, Voice. Out of these, 13 are original articles and 1 is a review article. Gonçalves, Lüders, Guirado, Albizu and Marques, in the paper "Perception of hearing protectors by workers that participate in hearing preservation programs: a preliminary study", analyzed the perception of workers regarding the aspects related to comfort and use of hearing protectors. They concluded that the workers at the units presented good perception about important aspects of hearing protection for the use of both types of hearing protectors. In the study by Araújo and Iório, called "Effects of sound amplification on speech perception in the elderly with and without tinnitus", the authors verified that acoustic stimulation through the effective use of hearing aids led to improved speech perception, regardless of the presence of tinnitus. Pires, Mota and Pinheiro, in the paper "The memory systems of children with (central) auditory disorder", studied the memory systems among these children and observed that they are related to phonological awareness. Nalom, Soares and Cárnio, in the paper about "The relevance of receptive vocabulary in reading comprehension", analyzed the performance of 5 th grade students, from Elementary School, and concluded that at the absence of indicators of changes in reading and writing skills, the presence of good vocabulary significantly contributes with proficient reading comprehension of texts. Novaes, Nicolielo-Carrilho and Lopes-Herrera, in the study about "Speech rate and fluency in children with phonological disorder", described the performance of these children with ...