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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 “Hearing Consultant”

Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in audiology.
Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.
Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.
Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.
Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative 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.
Demonstrate assistive listening devices (ALDs) to clients.
Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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