Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The objective of this article is to analyze the disciplinary research landscape from the national academic production, to identify populations, areas, research approaches, in this way identify needs and challenges for formative research of speech therapy in Colombia. Information from undergraduate and graduate research projects of 13 training programs in Speech Therapy in the country, between 2010 and 2019, reported by higher education institutions, was analyzed. Information was collected from reports and research papers (N=638). First, there was an increase in research production between 2010 (4.9%) and 2019 (18.3%). 85% of the research was identified in undergraduate and 15% in postgraduate. The predominant approach was qualitative (55.3%), which, together with the descriptive scope (77.8%) that represent the majority of research products. The scenario related to the field of clinical health care leads the research (52.9%). The predominant areas in this research scenario are Language (29.1%) and Hearing (27.4%) in adult (56.7%) and child (28.52%) populations. It is concluded that the research production from the academy, specifically from the training programs of speech therapists in Colombia, evidences the need to promote experimental and analytical research, with populations of neonates and infants, in areas related to oral function and in unprecedented scenarios. Besides, it is necessary to include the use of technologies and new intervention approaches to contribute to the evidence-based approach. Future research should allow comparison of research before and after the pandemic, given the virtualization and the inclusion of speech therapy in settings such as critical care and palliative care units.

This is a theoretical essay whose objective is to present the field of collective health as an insurgent proposal to the hegemonic biomedical practices of health, situating its historical emergence and its main theoretical foundations, as well as discussing, from that field, possibilities and challenges for the critical reorientation of the practice and training in speech therapy from the Brazilian reality. The text presents a historical review of the emergence of this academic field, related to Latin American social struggles against social inequalities and mobilizations for Brazilian health reform in the seventies and eighties, highlighting exponents in its origin. In addition, the possibilities and challenges for the critical reorientation of the practice and training in Speech-Language Therapy are discussed from a brief historical analysis of the encounter of this area with collective health. It is concluded that this field has the potential to offer theoretical and political contributions for the reorientation of the curricular architecture of the courses, as well as for the expansion of the subjects involved in the practices, whether from academia or from health services workers and social movements, in order to decolonize and reinvent Speech-Language Therapy assuming its responsibility in strengthening the democratic field in the area of health, which is, today, a necessity in Brazil and throughout Latin America.

The difficulties that children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) experience extend to non-linguistic aspects such as cognition, memory, academic performance, and socio-emotional skills. It is for this reason that, when approaching this disorder, the intersection of bio-psycho-social aspects hould be considered. This article aims to offer a critical review of the influence that sexist stereotypes have on relevant variables included in the study of DLD, such as language and socio-emotional aspects. First, we establish the importance of adopting a feminist perspective in science and, specifically, when approaching DLD, which so far shows an overrepresentation of boys in research samples. Secondly, we review the relationship between a sexist socialization and the development of language and socio-emotional skills in children, revealing the negative impact this has on the detection and assessment of children with language difficulties at different stages of development. Finally, we offer proposals to carry out research that represents girls and boys equally and integrates adequate practices, in order to leave the androcentric gaze behind. Additionally, we propose that professionals working in this field use an interdisciplinary approach, to incorporate protocols and guidelines that consider the presence of sexist bias in the detection and assessment of DLD, as well as in the interaction with families, in order to provide services to this population that are based on true equality.

Building transformative speech pathologies located in the historical, social and political context of Latin America, and Chile in particular, requires questioning the epistemic, political and ethical bases on which professional work is based. We propose that the life course perspective (LCP) offers approaches and tools to address this issue. The LCP is an interdisciplinary perspective that studies human development as a complex phenomenon in which individual lives are interrelated with the socio-historical context. International public policies have adopted this approach and incorporated it into health care strategies. However, Latin American hegemonic Speech-Language Therapy is far from adopting a LPC, despite the relevance it has both for the study of human development and for health research and care. In this essay we discuss three areas that seem fundamental to us to propose Speech-Language Therapies from the LCP. First, to question the notion of life cycle on which the vision of human development is based in hegemonic SpeechLanguage Therapy. Second, to recognize and discuss the influence of the biomedical model on both research and current professional practices. Third, to raise the importance of the agency from an ethical-political position in the relationship with people and / or communities. Although we recognize a series of limitations in the approach, these three proposed areas provide reflections on key issues to overcome the current hegemonic model and build Speech-Language Therapies at the service of transformation and social justice in Latin America.

This study describes a process of reflection, action and action through Participatory Action Research (IPA). The main objective was to build a collective vision on ageism among Adolescents (A) and Older Persons (OP) belonging to the commune of Villarrica. Through the determination of factors that emerge as contributors of ageism and the actions necessary to eradicate it, from the perspective of the participants. The IAP process meant that both age groups interrelated through 10 intergenerational meetings where the following stages were developed: Evaluation of the problem, problematization, characterization, creative feedback and programming. The main emerging factors of ageism identified by the participants were: educational system, legislative power, cultural values, technologies, labor market, individual factors, and socioeconomic conditions. In turn, the A and OP identified as actions to be carried out to reduce ageism: changes in the family role, raising awareness institutions, educating about OP, capturing the attention of society, increasing instances of communication. The development of participatory methodologies in community interventions, together with the opportunity to have meeting spaces between different generations are a challenge for the region, which allow the co-production of knowledge and actions with, by and between historically excluded groups such as A and OP.

This essay is the product of a reflection that addresses the autonomy of women who live their old age and their contributions to the field of health. From stories constructed in a doctoral research, about their own health care, personal reflections emerge that provide new theoretical constructs and put in tension the hegemonic proposals referred to this topic, thus generating a situated, decolonizing knowledge, which opens the doors to look at old age in a different way. From this process two ideas are rescued: first, to understand the semantic distance between autonomy and independence, from where autonomy is built as a decision about themselves and not as the ability to perform the actions that mobilize those decisions, therefore, being autonomous and being independent are parallel and complementary paths that contribute to their healthy aging. Secondly, that inhabiting autonomy is a historically constructed experience and changes as they age and abandon the obligation to take care of other people, placing themselves at the center of their lives, without losing sight of the threat that old age can generate in this experience. It is proposed to re-semantize these concepts in health and incorporate into health practice a critical reflective perspective that recognizes the life course and the multiplicity of discriminatory systems that precarious the stories of women who live their old age, to contribute to the construction of a more just and equitable society.

Portada Volumen 21, Número 1, 2022 Editorial Volumen 21, Número 1, 2022 Effectiveness of phonological awareness stimulation in preschool – A systematic review Comportamiento de los parámetros diadococinéticos orales en escolares de primero básico y su relación con el nivel sociocultural y el desempeño fonético-fonológico Nonspeech oral motor exercises: Use and knowledge of speech-language pathologists working with people with speech sound disorders Percepción de personas con tartamudez en cuanto a sus experiencias de tratamiento basado en el modelo multidimensional CALMS Perceptions, Knowledge, and Routines of Parents regarding Food Introduction Methods and their Relationship with Speech Deglución post extubación de pacientes críticos con y sin diagnóstico de COVID-19 durante la pandemia Estructura de los objetivos terapéuticos en la intervención fonoaudiológica de usuarios con necesidades vocales: una revisión sistemática exploratoria Chilean Spanish transcultural adaptation of CAP-II and SIR scales in an online format for parents of children with hearing aids or cochlear implants. Estudio exploratorio para la validación de la Brief International Cognitive Assessment for Multiple Sclerosis (BICAMS) en la población con Esclerosis Múltiple Remitente Recurrente del Hospital San Juan de Dios en Santiago de Chile Política educativa y asignación del tiempo para la práctica fonoaudiológica: experiencia de fonoaudiólogos/as con más de 20 años de ejercicio laboral en contextos educativos Bullying a personas con trastornos de la comunicación integradas en establecimientos escolares: Rol de la Fonoaudiología y sus implicancias en la salud comunicativa Panorama de la investigación en fonoaudiología: tendencias en Colombia La enseñanza de la metodología cualitativa en carreras de las Ciencias de la Salud: desafíos y reflexiones a partir de experiencias de docencia en Fonoaudiología Una reseña acerca de “Comunicación y lenguaje en la infancia”

The purpose of this text is to summon to collectively feel the weight given to the discourse of deficit in relation to the study of human communication, its processes and its knowledge. It is a reflective and joint work that shares three decolonizing and antiableist exercises to combine actions, guided by situated questions, on the training and professional action of those who are working or are studying Speech-Language Therapy. Also of those who teach and research in universities.

El cáncer es la segunda causa de muerte en niños mayores de 5 años en el mundo.  Una de las principales complicaciones asociadas al cáncer es la “neutropenia febril (NF)”.En este contexto, es fundamental poder contar con un manejo precoz,  racional y personalizado de los episodios de NF en niños con cáncer, apuntando a tres aspectos fundamentales: estratificación de riesgo de infección bacteriana y fúngica invasora,  toma de decisiones durante todo el episodio de NF y una optimización del uso de los recursos de los sistemas de salud.El Comité de Infecciones en el Niño Inmunocomprometido de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Infectología Pediátrica (SLIPE) publicó en el año 2011 el Consenso “Diagnóstico y tratamiento de la Neutropenia Febril en niños con cáncer”.  Diez años más tarde estamos actualizando este consenso, presentando una nueva revisión exhaustiva de la evidencia y de la experiencia de cada país en el manejo de estos niños. Este nuevo trabajo, tiene el objetivo de entregar las mejores recomendaciones para optimizar la atención de los niños con cáncer, neutropenia y fiebre en nuestra región.