PURPOSE: to determine voice quality in teachers of deaf students at the six Special Municipal Schools in the city of São Paulo. METHODS: eighty teachers responded to a questionnaire proposed by Ferreira et al. (2003) Information on the group who stated that they currently have or have had in the past any voice alteration was cross-checked with information on the group who did not report such complaint (Spearman Correlation Test). RESULTS: the research population, all female college graduates, with an average age of 37, considers the workplace moderate, is satisfied with their own performance at school, and refers to autonomy in class planning. With regard to the issue of school violence, classroom indiscipline, fight, and drug problems are more often reported. With regard to environmental risks, most consider acoustics satisfactory, although some of them consider the workplace noisy and dusty. With regard to general health issues, teachers most frequently refer to headache and anxiety. Most teachers do not smoke, or drink alcoholic beverages and 30% (24) reported that they have or have had any voice alteration and noticed the voice alteration less than two years ago and in an insidious way and probably caused by the heavy use of voice or presence of allergy. CONCLUSION: voice generation conditions of teachers that responded a questionnaire showed similar results as for those teachers of listening students, even so, only 30% reported voice alteration.
Voice; Voice Disorders; Faculty; Epidemiology; Risk Factors
