title: [Brazilian Ph.D. speech-language pathologist and audiologists: analysis of thesis material according to the field of practice and programs].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Ph.D. programs in Speech-Language and Hearing Science.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  to bring to date the concluded doctorate thesis of Brazilian speech-language and hearing pathologists, until December of 2003.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  from the profile analysis of the concluded doctorate thesis of Brazilian speech-language pathologists, it is possible to conclude that in the period between 1976, when the first thesis was concluded, to December of 2003, a total of 203 thesis elaborated by Ph.D. speech-language and hearing pathologists were found (in its majority women), in the areas of Hearing, Language, Voice and Oralfacial Myofunctional system.
authors.affiliation: Fonoaudióloga, Doutora em Distúrbios da Communicação Humana, Departmento de Clinica Fonoaudiológica e do Programa de Estudos Pós -Graduados em Fonoaudiologia da Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. irusso@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Iêda Chaves Pacheco
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Russo
authors.forename: Léslie Piccolotto
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Ferreira
mesh_terms: D001298:Audiology / Q000193:education*; D001938:Brazil; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D012106:Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000193:education*; D014831:Voice