THEME: surface electromyography in national journals in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. PURPOSE: to characterize the approach of surface electromyography in national journals in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. CONCLUSIONS: there are few studies about the surface electromyography in national journals in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, but most pertain to the Orofacial Motricity and Fluency areas. There seems to be a need to develop this subject and to diversify the topics referring to Speech-Language Pathology interest.