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EDITORIAL Dra. Fernanda Dreux M. FernandesThe Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia begins to be published entirely in English and Portuguese in 2012. It is one more challenge that I am sure will be shared and met by the scientific community of Communication Sciences and Disorders. The bilingual publication of the Revista aims to increase its international impact maintaining its role in the diffusion of the knowledge that is developed by and for the Brazilian speech-language pathologist and audiologist.The first Original Article has the title Surface electromyography of masticatory muscles in individuals with temporomandibular disorder submitted to acupuncture. It reports a study with 40 women with ages between 20 and 40 years conducted by Borin, Corrêa, Silva and Milanesi.The Performance of Brazilian elderly on the 100 ml water swallowing test was studied by Moreira and Pereira with 18 institutionalized elderly subjects. The data obtained through simple assessment procedures are fundamental to the clinical practice.The Language alterations in elderly patients with dementia assessed with the MAC Battery were studied by Koehler, Gindri, Bós and Mancopes in a group of 13 subjects. The authors concluded that this test is useful to the characterization of this population.Pagliarin, Brancalioni and Keske-Soares studied the Phonological therapy based on the stimulation of single sounds and groups of sounds focusing on the Multiple Oppositions approach and the ABAB-Withdrawal and Multiple Probes approach and concluded that both methods produced positive results.In another work by the same group Wiethan and Mota studied the Occurrence of repair strategies for fricative phonemes in phonological disorder in 87 children with ages between 4 and 8 years and concluded that more complex fricatives are associated with more repair strategies and more severe phonological disorders are associated to larger occurrences of these strategies.The Influence of visual stimuli in the written production of deaf signers with complaints of writing impairment was assessed by Lustre, Ribeiro, Ferreira and Cárnio. The authors concluded that the both types of visual stimuli used in the study did not result in different written productions.Hearing aid adaptation in users assisted by the Unified Health System is the title of the research reported by Buriti and Oliveira in which 32 hearing impaired adults were assessed.In another article about the same issue Flores and Iório report a research about Activity limitations in the elderly: a study of new hearing aid users using the APHAB questionnaire. This self-assessment questionnaire was applied to 30 elders before and after three months of hearing aid use.Posturography with virtual reality stimuli in different vestibular dysfunctions is the title of the research reported by Yamamoto and Ganança. It is a retrospective study of the files of 100 subjects between 7 and 86 years.Insert earphones: application to avoid collapse of the external auditory canal is the article presented by Marangon...