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Hearing Aid Specialists

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Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.

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Counsel patients and families on communication strategies and the effects of hearing loss.

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Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.

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Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.

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Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.

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Perform basic screening procedures, such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.

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Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.

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Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in audiology.

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Demonstrate assistive listening devices (ALDs) to clients.

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Assist audiologists in performing aural procedures, such as real ear measurements, speech audiometry, auditory brainstem responses, electronystagmography, and cochlear implant mapping.

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Diagnose and treat hearing or related disabilities under the direction of an audiologist.