Editorial

Abstract

In January 2015, when we took over the responsibility of editors in chief at CoDAS, we decided to preserve the relevant actions implemented by the previous management and we committed to executing all necessary changes to guarantee current and new indexing. Although the solitary work of editors might not be available to the scientific community, we are focused on that goal. Currently, this process is highly dependent on editorial actions as well as on the initiatives taken by authors and advisors. These actions may ensure the periodicity and also increase our international representation, expanding quotations and avoiding endogeny.This issue 27 (5) of CoDAS contains two editorials and, in one of them, Dr. Maria Claudia Cunha was invited to reflect on the systematic review analysis. The current issue consists of 15 articles: 4 related to Audiology, 5 in the language area, 3 in Orofacial motor control, 1 in Dysphagia and 2 in Voice. Among those articles, 14 are original and one of them is a case study.Aiello and Ferrari, in the article "Teleaudiology: efficacy assessment of an online social network as a support tool for parents of children candidates for cochlear implant", evaluated the effectiveness of an online social network as a support for parents of children with hearing deficiency. They concluded that the posts and the evaluation of the participants indicated the potential of such network. Cibian and Pereira studied the effectiveness of auditory training in dichotic task in the article "Figure-background in dichotic task and their relation to skills untrained". They found that subjects achieved normality in the trained ability for figure-ground and to the untrained auditory closure. However, in the ability not trained the normality was not reached. Rolim, Rabelo, Lobo, Moreira and Samelli, in the article "Interaction between diabetes mellitus and hypertension on hearing of elderly", studied the effect of those diseases in the auditory system and found that diabetes mellitus and high blood pressure associated have greater impact on hearing impairment compared to other groups, suggesting a synergistic effect of the two chronic diseases on hearing. In the study "Influence of the educational status on the Dichotic Sentence Identification test in Brazilian Portuguese", the authors Andrade, Silva, Iorio and Gil compared the performance of the DSI testing, in the Brazilian Portuguese version, and educational level in normal-hearing individuals. They concluded that the right ear have some advantage and the higher the educational level, the better the performance of individuals. Rocha, Silva and Berti, in the study "Qualitative and quantitative ultrasound analysis of oropharyngeal swallowing", analyzed the influence of food consistency and the effect of age on the qualitative and / or quantitative parameters in the swallowing ultrasonography test. They concluded that age and consistency of food modify the ultrasonographic images of the tongue's movement in normal subjects. Barini and Hage, in the article "Vocabulary...