Editorial

Abstract

Some issues, however, involve all the rehabilitation area and should be considered.Several participants pointed out that the health and education professionals should be better prepared in order to ensure equal opportunities to access health and education resources. Improving communication is considered a key-point in this process.Other aspect that was emphasized was the need of comparable data about barriers and facilitators that allow the development of an "epidemiology and functionality and inclusion" with global significance.The information about functionality is essential to the determination of mere adequate and efficient intervention purposes and proposals. Functional aspects of each specialty should be determined aiming the identification of common terms that can be shared.Some international initiatives that are being started, as the inclusion of functionality on the ICD-11, were also mentioned. It demands the identification of the most important professions on rehabilitation to suggest a list of the specialists who should participate in this project. A concrete action by SLPs and Audiologists aiming to be included in this list and to participate on the discussions would probably be advisable.An interesting general impression is that the difficulties in the consistent and coherent use of ICF are common to other countries. The suggestion of a guideline to the ICF use was received as a useful tool. I will not deny my personal satisfaction with the valorization of functionality, an area with