INTRODUCTION: The auditive prosthesis is one of the sed alternative in the auditive rehabilitation process that aims to aid the communication and to diminish the restrictions induced by the auditive deficiency. Even with the techonology advance, the selection and adjustment of the auditive prosthesis require a criteria process to maximize the user's performance, benefit and satisfaction. OBJECTIVE: To describe the protocol of selectiom and adjustment of audictive prosthesis for adults and elderly candidates, used in a Audiology Center, which elaboration ws based in vality protocols and previously described in specific scientific literature and completed by informations of clinic evidences from service. COMMENTS FINAIS: The speech protocol of selection and adjustment of auditicve prosthesis for adults and elderly shows that a great number of collected informations propitiates a better orientation of real expectative and more effectiveness to recommend the audictive prosthesis' usage, favorishing in this way, the audictive performance, the individual satisfaction and benefit.
hearing; auditive lost; hearing auxiliaries; adult; protocols
