The meeting between health professionals and deaf patients is usually marked by
difficulty in communication. While it is a right of people with disabilities to have
access to quality health services, they are often taken care of incorrectly and even in
some cases are disrespected in their condition, since health services they do not
have professionals capable of attending excellence to them. The physician should
have the ability to communicate with patients who may or may not have these
characteristics. In the context of much accessibility, it is important to disseminate
knowledge about Libras among students of health courses, to contribute to the
training of professionals capable of understanding and assisting the needs of those
who use it as their first language. The objective of this study is to investigate the
expansion of knowledge about the need for access to the hearing impaired to health
services. Methodology: This is a quantitative study with a descriptive and crosssectional
study design and is part of the project Libras em Saúde of the NGO IFMSA
BRAZIL (Federal Federation of Medical Students Association of Brazil), a committee
of the Federal University of Pará, whose general objective is to investigate the
attention to the deaf person in the health area from the academic perspective, and
also from the deaf person. Twenty deaf people, 12 men and 08 women, participated
in the study. Bilingual and communicating for pounds. The percentage of negative
evaluations of the meeting with health professionals represented 51% among
bilinguals; and 78% in the group of deaf people who communicate. We interviewed
56 academics from the third and fourth years of UFPA medicine. The pre-test
evidenced students' lack of knowledge about deaf culture and sign language. In the
post-test: the students were able to differentiate the deaf from the hearing impaired
by insertion or not in the deaf culture. The inclusion of the teaching of Libras as a
discipline of the medical course, becomes an important instrument of change in the
social reality that the hearing impaired is currently included
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