Assess and treat persons with hearing and related disorders. May fit hearing aids and provide auditory training. May perform research related to hearing problems.

Other names for Audiologists: Audiologist, Audiology Director, Audiology Doctor (AUD), Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology Licensed Audiologist (CCC-A Licensed Audiologist), Clinical Audiologist, Clinical Director, Dispensing Audiologist, Educational Audiologist, Hearing Instrument Specialist, Hearing Therapist, Industrial Audiologist, Infant Hearing Screening Manager, Newborn Hearing Screening Program Coordinator, Occupational Audiologist, Pediatric Audiologist, Pediatric Cochlear Implant Audiologist, Speech and Hearing Clinic Director, Speech Language Pathologist,

• Maintain client records at all stages, including initial evaluation and discharge.
• Refer clients to additional medical or educational services if needed.
• Counsel and instruct clients in techniques to improve hearing or speech impairment, including sign language or lip-reading.
• Monitor clients' progress and discharge them from treatment when goals have been attained.
• Plan and conduct treatment programs for clients' hearing or speech problems, consulting with physicians, nurses, psychologists, and other health care personnel as necessary.
• Recommend assistive devices according to clients' needs or nature of impairments.
• Participate in conferences or training to update or share knowledge of new hearing or speech disorder treatment methods or technologies.
• Instruct clients, parents, teachers, or employers in how to avoid behavior patterns that lead to miscommunication.
• Examine and clean patients' ear canals.
• Advise educators or other medical staff on speech or hearing topics.
• Educate and supervise audiology students and health care personnel.
• Fit and tune cochlear implants, providing rehabilitation for adjustment to listening with implant amplification systems.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams to assess and rehabilitate recipients of implanted hearing devices.
• Develop and supervise hearing screening programs.
• Conduct or direct research on hearing or speech topics and report findings to help in the development of procedures, technology, or treatments.
• Measure noise levels in workplaces and conduct hearing protection programs in industry, schools, and communities.
• Evaluate hearing and speech/language disorders to determine diagnoses and courses of treatment.
• Administer hearing or speech/language evaluations, tests, or examinations to patients to collect information on type and degree of impairment, using specialized instruments and electronic equipment.
• Fit and dispense assistive devices, such as hearing aids.

• Audiometers or accessories
• Audiometric booths or acoustic hearing test chambers
• Auditory function screening units
• Audiometers or accessories
• Electromyography EMG units or accessories
• Auditory function screening units
• Desktop computers
• Medical tuning forks
• Medical lamps
• Aural probes
• Aural probes
• Electrocochleographs
• Electroencephalography EEG units or accessories
• Gyroscopic instruments
• Hearing aid analyzers or test systems
• Power drills
• Power grinders
• Hearing aid analyzers or test systems
• Hearing aids for the physically challenged
• Medical syringes without needles
• Screwdrivers
• Notebook computers
• Auditory function screening units
• Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
• Personal computers
• Auditory function screening units
• Audiometric bone vibrators or middle ear analyzers
• Mats or platforms for rehabilitation or therapy
• Potentiometers
• Hearing aids for the physically challenged
• Sound measuring apparatus or decibel meter
• Auditory function screening units
• Tablet computers
• Audiometers or accessories
• Tympanometers or accessories
• Digital camcorders or video cameras
• Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets

Office suite software

Word processing software

Presentation software

Spreadsheet software

Medical software

Electronic mail software