the audiology has achieved a great advance, where currently speech pathologists act in private clinics and in public services, in addition to schools, colleges and universities. To observe the development of the area of Audiology in Brazil, we note that there is a growing number of new audiology procedures. In 1980 the practice of audiology was limited in hospitals, offices and private clinics, and in 1988 due to a new constitution that devoted attention to protection of health of workers, opened-if more than one field of work, the audiology occupational, because of the hearing losses induced by noise

The area of audiology referred-if the science of hearing, auditory processing and corporal balance. The speech pathologist, Especialista em Audiologia, identifies, assesses and rehabilitation, empowering people with disabilities peripheral or central auditory, influencing the emergence of human communication disorders, as well as the balance disorders

Inclusion Criteria:

• the professionals working with clinical audiology

Exclusion Criteria:

• the professionals who do not act in the city of Fortaleza or refuse to sign the Term of Free and Informed Consent

replied to the questionnaire speech pathologists, of both sexes, active in the area of audiology clinic, of the city of Fortaleza, Ceará.