Description
Select and fit hearing aids for customers. Administer and interpret tests of hearing. Assess hearing instrument efficacy. Take ear impressions and prepare, design, and modify ear molds.
- • Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.
- • Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.
- • Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.
- • Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.
- • Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.
- • Demonstrate assistive listening devices (ALDs) to clients.
- • Diagnose and treat hearing or related disabilities under the direction of an audiologist.
- • Perform basic screening procedures, such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.
- • Assist audiologists in performing aural procedures, such as real ear measurements, speech audiometry, auditory brainstem responses, electronystagmography, and cochlear implant mapping.
- • Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in audiology.
- • Counsel patients and families on communication strategies and the effects of hearing loss.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
