Audiologists

Audiologists provide diagnostic assessment and rehabilitative services related to human hearing defects.

What the job involves

• Administers and interprets a wide range of audiometric tests to determine hearing efficiency and locate sites of hearing problems

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

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

• Plans, directs and participates in counselling, speech reading and other rehabilitation programmes

• Prescribes appropriate hearing aids and instructing patients in use