Editorial

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We wish you all a year of achievements and great productivity in research. In the first issue CoDAS this year, we would like to clarify the promising changes made in the journal, aimed at ensuring its sustainability and desired indexing.To guarantee the sustainability of the magazine, from 2016 on, the CoDAS will have the administrative and editorial support of a new company. Furthermore, the Brazilian Society of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (SBFa) signed an agreement with the Federal Council of Speech-Language Pathology to integrate the group of sponsors, besides being awarded sponsorship from the Research Support Foundation of the State of São Paulo and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. As it occurs with all the major indexed journals, the translation of the articles, according to the CoDAS standards, should be funded by the authors and no longer will be a courtesy of SBFa. We suggest that the instructions to the authors be carefully read, especially with regard to translation and references. By means of these changes and aiming at new indexing, it is possible to initiate the ahead of print publishing mode. For more information, please visit the SciELO page: http://www.scielo.org/php/level.php?lang=pt&component=56&item=60.In this issue 28(1), we have 14 articles, 4 related to audiology, 1 involving language, 3 in orofacial motricity, 2 related to dysphagia, and 3 involving voice. Among these, 13 are original articles and 1 is a review study. Wenceslau, Sassi, Magnani, and Andrade in the article "Peripheral facial palsy: muscle activity in different onset times," studied the electromyographic activity of risorius and zygomatic muscles in individuals with and without facial paralysis at different times of the disease. They concluded that the results did not reveal differences between both the groups according to the onset of the disease. Costa, Souza, Carneiro, Neto, Pegoraro-Krook, and Dutka in their article "Multimedia about the velopharynx and primary palatoplasty for orientation of caregivers of babies with cleft lip and palate" presented and discussed the development and evaluation of multimedia material for the orientation of caregivers of babies with cleft lip and palate. The authors found that the multimedia material was effective in the improvement of the caregivers' knowledge. Ferreira, Silva, and Felício investigated the proportion of men and women, as well as the association between gender, and the variables such as age, duration of the problem, and symptoms of temporomandibular disorders in an article entitled "Signs and symptoms of temporomandibular disorders in women and men." Fernandes, Yamaguti, Morettin, and Costa in their article "Speech perception in users of hearing aid with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder" examined the speech perception in prelingually deaf children with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder and in users of individual bilateral hearing aid devices. They concluded that the therapeutic process applied, which included the use o...