None of the surgeries performed today produces greater physiological and psychological changes than laryngectomy. After surgery, patients find themselves to be unable to speak, breathing through tracheotomy, with decreased smell and taste and most of the times suspecting they have cancer. The purpose of this work is to lest the method learning of esophageal speech intended to assist in rehabilitating laryngectomized patients. We have concluded that the method used to develop esophageal speech had satisfactory results; that the nurse has the skill required to guide this learning and to help laryngectomized patients with communication difficulties along with many others inherent to this condition.