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Job 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.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2092.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 53,000.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 25.00
Currently, there are 6,740 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Hearing Aid Specialists”.

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Tasks for “Board Certified Hearing Instrument Specialist/Company President”

Assist audiologists in performing aural procedures, such as real ear measurements, speech audiometry, auditory brainstem responses, electronystagmography, and cochlear implant mapping.
Demonstrate assistive listening devices (ALDs) to clients.
Diagnose and treat hearing or related disabilities under the direction of an audiologist.
Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.
Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.
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.
Perform basic screening procedures, such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.
Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.
Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.

Related Technology & Tools

Desktop computers
Warble tone audiometers
Video-otoscopes
Tympanometers
Ultrasonic cleaning systems
Caloric irrigators
Sound booths
Hearing aid analyzers
Two-channel amplifiers
Wide range audiometers
Personal computers
Otoacoustic emissions equipment OAE
Tablet computers
Color laser printers
Automatic impedance audiometers
Diagnostic tuning forks
Probe microphones
Ear probes
Handheld otoscopes
Portable auditory screeners
Speech mapping systems
Two-channel audiometers
Behind-the-ear hearing aids
Mechanical stethoscopes
Auditory brainstem response screening systems
Laser measurement systems
Pure tone audiometers
Speech audiometers
Hearing aid programming interfaces
Mini hearing aids
Hearing aid vacuum systems
In-the-ear hearing aids
Circumaural headphones
Electroacoustic impedance bridges
Programmable hearing aids
In-the-canal hearing aids

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