Hearing Aid Specialists
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Job summary
Qualifications
- Proven ability to diagnose and treat hearing disabilities under the direction of an audiologist.
- Experience in administering basic hearing tests including air and bone conduction tests.
- Ability to maintain or repair hearing aids and other communication devices.
Responsibilities
- Select and fit hearing aids for customers.
- Administer and interpret tests of hearing.
- Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.
Skills
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Job description
Position 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.
- Diagnose and treat hearing or related disabilities under the direction of an audiologist.
- Assist audiologists in performing aural procedures, such as real ear measurements, speech audiometry, auditory brainstem responses, electronystagmography, and cochlear implant mapping.
- Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.
- Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.
- Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.
- Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
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In the United States, there were 6,800 jobs for Hearing Aid Specialists in 2016. New jobs are being produced at a rate of 20.6% which is above the national average. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts 1,400 new jobs for Hearing Aid Specialists by 2026. There will be an estimated 600 positions for Hearing Aid Specialists per year.
The states with the most job growth for Hearing Aid Specialists are Montana, Nevada, and Arizona. Watch out if you plan on working in North Dakota, Nebraska, or Maryland. These states have the worst job growth for this type of profession.
The average yearly salary of a Hearing Aid Specialist ranges between $28,410 and $88,590.
Hearing Aid Specialists who work in Hawaii, Kansas, or Alaska, make the highest salaries.
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