Editorial

Abstract

The second issue of Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia -JSBFa, year 2011, concentrates several researches about speech-language pathology evaluation with diverse focus of analysis. This variety show the wide scope of our academic background and the challenge speechlanguage pathologists are facing in the next decades, emphasizing the multidisciplinary nature of required knowledge. The issue is composed by 17 contributions, of which 13 Original Articles, two Case Reports, one text about Evidence-Based Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and one Brief Communication.Audiology is represented by four originals articles. Two contributions analyzed auditory processing, one on children and one on rural workers. The article Auditory processing evaluation in children born preterm, from Gallo, Dias, Pereira, Azevedo, and Sousa, verified the performance of children born preterm on auditory processing evaluation, concluding that these children have worse performance than children born full-term. They also correlated the data with behavioral hearing assessment carried out at 12 months of age, finding that the delay in sound localization at this age is associated to deficits on the physiological mechanism of temporal processing in the auditory processing evaluation carried out between 4 and 7 years.The study Auditory temporal processing assessment in rural workers exposed to organophosphate pesticides, from Camarinha, Frota, Pacheco-Ferreira, and Lima, analyzed 43 rural workers exposed to organophosphate pesticides and identified alteration on temporal resolution and temporal order abilities, even when they showed normal peripheral auditory thresholds.The study Percentage of Consonants Correct (PCC) in children with and without hearing loss, from Zanichelli and Gil, analyzed 15 children with hearing impairment and 15 with normal hearing and verified that children with hearing loss have lower PCC indexes when compared to normally hearing children. The average performance and imitation are influenced by time in therapy and time using hearing aids.The study Comparison between classification criteria of audiometric findings in elderly, from Tenório, Guimarães, Flores, and Iório, analyzed the records of 140 elderly subjects, with average age of 69.75 years, concluding that the classification criteria suggested by Davis and Silverman and by the BIAP recommendation presented similar results. However, the BIAP criteria are more sensible to detect hearing loss in elderly subjects.The Language area is represented by six originals articles. The study Predictability of sentences used in the assessment of speech intelligibility in dysarthria, from Alexandre, Barreto, and Ortiz, analyzed 120 volunteers and had as conclusion that the studied protocol has the predominance of low predictability sentences for assessment of speech intelligibility, suggesting that these sentences might be reliably used for assessing intelligibility.The article Investigating language acquisition disorders based on the complaints, from Tamanaha, O...