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Contributions of Brazilian Collective Health to the Reorientation of the Training and Practice of Speech-Language Therapy

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Abstract

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.

Keywords:

Speech-Language Therapy, Collective health, Professional practice, Latin-American Speech-Language Therapy

Author Biographies

Marcos Vinicius Ribeiro de Araújo, Universidade Federal da Bahia

Departamento de Fonoaudiologia, Instituto Multidisciplinar de Reabilitação e Saúde, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brasil

Vladimir Andrei Rodrigues Arce, Universidade Federal da Bahia

Departamento de Fonoaudiologia, Instituto Multidisciplinar de Reabilitação e Saúde, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brasil; Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências da Reabilitação (PPG-REAB/UFBA) e do Mestrado Profissional em Saúde Coletiva (MEPISCO/UNEB), Brasil-

Bárbara Patricia da Silva Lima, Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas

Núcleo Ciências Humanas, Sociais e Políticas Públicas, Centro de Ciências Integradoras, Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas, Brasil

Mauricio Wiering Pinto Telles, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Departamento de Fonoaudiologia, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Brasil; Programa de Pós-graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde do Trairí, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil