title: Ultrasound applicability in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To present recent studies that used the ultrasound in the fields of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, which evidence possibilities of the applicability of this technique in different subareas.
  
  
  METHODS
  A bibliographic research was carried out in the PubMed database, using the keywords "ultrasonic," "speech," "phonetics," "Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences," "voice," "deglutition," and "myofunctional therapy," comprising some areas of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Sciences. The keywords "ultrasound," "ultrasonography," "swallow," "orofacial myofunctional therapy," and "orofacial myology" were also used in the search.
  
  
  METHODS
  Studies in humans from the past 5 years were selected. In the preselection, duplicated studies, articles not fully available, and those that did not present direct relation between ultrasound and Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Sciences were discarded.
  
  
  METHODS
  The data were analyzed descriptively and classified subareas of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Sciences. The following items were considered: purposes, participants, procedures, and results.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We selected 12 articles for ultrasound versus speech/phonetics subarea, 5 for ultrasound versus voice, 1 for ultrasound versus muscles of mastication, and 10 for ultrasound versus swallow. Studies relating "ultrasound" and "Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Sciences" in the past 5 years were not found.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Different studies on the use of ultrasound in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Sciences were found. Each of them, according to its purpose, confirms new possibilities of the use of this instrument in the several subareas, aiming at a more accurate diagnosis and new evaluative and therapeutic possibilities.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Human Communication Disorders, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Luciana da Silva
authors.initials: Lda S
authors.lastname: Barberena
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Human Communication Disorders, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Brunah de Castro
authors.initials: Bde C
authors.lastname: Brasil
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Human Communication Disorders, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Roberta Michelon
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Melo
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Human Communication Disorders, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carolina Lisbôa
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Mezzomo
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Human Communication Disorders, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Helena Bolli
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Mota
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Human Communication Disorders, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Márcia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Keske-Soares
mesh_terms: D003679:Deglutition / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008409:Mastication / Q000502:physiology; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014831:Voice / Q000502:physiology