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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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