Lina María Erazo Bastidas and Ariana Vanessa Chaves Mejía presented the results of their respective investigations during the VIII National and V International Meeting of Research in Speech Therapy.

The Speech Therapy program attached to the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Cauca participated in the VIII National and Fifth International Speech Therapy Research Meeting, organized by the Ibero-American University on November 26 and 27 of the current year. During the event, the program graduate Lina María Erazo Bastidas presented a presentation and the student Ariana Vanessa Chaves Mejía participated with a research poster.

In this way, the graduate Lina María Erazo Bastidas presented the presentation of the research project "Concordance between the Mobile App Hearing Test and tonal audiometry in adults from a Colombian university".

In this research, the Hearing Test mobile application carried out by Masalski (2016) was used as an early detection test for hearing impairments compared to a gold standard test - pure tone audiometry (PTA); the results of which determined that this application is useful for conducting hearing screening in a population at risk that does not have access to tonal audiometry.

For her part, the student of the 10th semester of Speech Therapy, Ariana Vanessa Chaves Mejía, presented the poster called "Acoustic parameters of normality in swallowing using the Deglutisom Software - Doppler sonar in different age groups in Popayán 2019".

The objective of this project was to establish the acoustic parameters of normality in frequency, intensity and duration of swallowing in children, youth, adults and the elderly. The objective sonar Doppler evaluation instrument that captures the sounds produced by the movements of the internal tissues of swallowing and the deglutisom software, created in partnership between speech therapy and engineering, was used to capture, graph and analyze the acoustics of swallowing sounds.

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E-mails: coordinacionfono@unicauca.edu.co - fonoaudiologia@unicauca.edu.co