Fonoaudiologia preventiva

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to explore a recent subject in Speech Language and Hearing Sciences: preventive Speech Language and Hearing Sciences; its theory and practical examples. Preventive Speech Language and Hearing Sciences aims to elaborate guided action programs regarding language and listening development, intervening in prevention, in therapy and in the rehabilitation of possible pathologies related to human communication. All actions that precede, anticipate and/or turn impossible the occurrence or the development of diseases are considered preventive measures. They are the actions taken in advance, based on the illness record knowledge turning its progress improbable. Prevention is divided into three basic levels, which can vary according to the interference moment: pre- pathogenesis period or the period where there isn’t a disease demonstration, initial period and advanced pathogenesis period. Speech Language and Hearing Sciences is acting very little in the first two prevention levels, being more restrict to rehabilitation. So, it’s necessary to change this scenery and for this to happen, changes in the fonoaudiologists vocational training are needed, as well as a larger knowledge on prevention.