Audiologists and Speech Pathologists \ Therapists

Audiologists and Speech Pathologists provide diagnostic assessment, treatment, rehabilitative services and management of human hearing defects, and communication and swallowing impairments.

What the job involves

• Administering and interpreting a wide range of audiometric tests to determine hearing efficiency and locate sites of detected hearing problems

• Interpreting audiometric test results alongside other medical, social and behavioural diagnostic data

• Evaluating total response pattern and acoustic tests to distinguish between organic and non-organic hearing loss

• Planning, directing and participating in counselling, speech reading and other rehabilitation programs

• Prescribing appropriate hearing aids and instructing patients in use

• Administering tests and observing patients to determine nature and extent of disorders

• Planning and conducting programs of remedial exercise to correct disorders such as stuttering and abnormal articulation

• Administering individual and group therapy for rehabilitation of patients with communication problems caused by defective hearing, cerebral palsy, surgery and injury

• Advising on treatment for children with difficulties in learning to speak

• Counselling and guiding language-handicapped individuals, their families, teachers and employers