Editorial

Abstract

The openning edition of the JSBFa is a benchmark of the successful succession of the Revista Pro-fono, launching a new management period that is now under the responsibility of the Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia -SBFa. The first volume of 2011 is the result of the Speech-Language scientific community support that with great effort and enthusiasm sent papers, which were carefully peer reviewed by distinguished reviewers with the aim of honoring the history of this journal and to present a noble scenario of our national production. This volume provides a wide panorama of intervention researches on language, voice, audiology and orofacial myology exclusively published online, both in Portuguese and English, allowing greater international visibility to our contribution. The first volume presents with 11 original articles, two case studies, a brief communication and an article about evidence-based Speech-Language Pathology.The first two studies are about children with autistic spectrum. The Fernandes, Amato, Balestro and Molini-Avejonas' paper from the FMUSP about the communication and language education of 26 mothers of children with autistic spectrum concluded that there was a positive impact of the systematized instruction administered in addition to the language therapy process over the child's life; the authors emphasize the fact that the education alone does not replace therapy, however it may offer relevant results. On the other hand, the Tamanaha and Perissinoto's paper from UNIFESP analyzed and compared the extension and rate of advance process of 11 boys with either autism or Asperger that were distributed into two groups; one that was submitted both to direct and indirect therapy and the other to solely indirect therapy; the group that underwent direct and indirect therapy showed a tendency towards presenting a better performance and the children with Asperger diagnosis showed a better development.Additionally, the school language area had two studies. The article of Silva and Capellini, from UNESP-Marília that examined the efficacy of a Speech-Language Pathology remediation program in 40 school children, from which 20 had learning difficulties; the proposed intervention showed positive effects on the development of cognitive-linguistic skills, reading abilities and text comprehension of third to fifth grade children. Pinto and Navas, from FCMSCSP characterized the reading of 32 sixth grade school children as far as temporal parameters are concerned and compared the performance of reading fluency pre and post-treatment program based on prosody patterns; there were positive changes related to mean reading rate, number of misread words and reading prosody quality, showing the benefits of the program.The voice area was represented by Siracusa, Oliveira, Madazio and Behlau, from CEV that analyzed the immediate effects of the sounded blowing exercise in 33 elderly people without vocal complaint. They observed a positive impact on the vocal quality of the individuals after the execution of the semi-occlu...

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