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Hearing Aid Specialists

  • Bright Outlook
  • Rapid Growth

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.

What you’d do

  • Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.
  • Counsel patients and families on communication strategies and the effects of hearing loss.
  • Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.
  • Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.
  • Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.
  • Perform basic screening procedures, such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.
  • Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.
  • Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in audiology.

Skills that matter

  • Active Listening
  • Service Orientation
  • Instructing
  • Speaking
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Social Perceptiveness

How to get there

Medium preparation: usually vocational school, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree

Also called

  • Hearing Aid Specialist
  • Hearing Instrument Dispenser
  • Hearing Instrument Specialist (HIS)
  • Hearing Specialist
  • Audioprosthologist
  • Hearing Aid Consultant

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