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Hearing Aid Specialists: reported tasks and exploration worksheet

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.

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This source lists 11 tasks, including 9 marked Core and 2 marked Supplemental. Labels and dates are retained below. Employers can combine or divide these responsibilities differently; explore the task itself before assuming it belongs in every version of the role.

Task source dates: 08/2020.

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Core · Task 17441 · 08/2020 · Incumbent

Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.

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Core · Task 21189 · 08/2020 · Incumbent

Counsel patients and families on communication strategies and the effects of hearing loss.

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Core · Task 17439 · 08/2020 · Incumbent

Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.

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Core · Task 17440 · 08/2020 · Incumbent

Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.

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Core · Task 17443 · 08/2020 · Incumbent

Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.

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Core · Task 17446 · 08/2020 · Incumbent

Perform basic screening procedures, such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.

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Core · Task 17442 · 08/2020 · Incumbent

Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.

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Core · Task 17448 · 08/2020 · Incumbent

Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in audiology.

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Core · Task 17444 · 08/2020 · Incumbent

Demonstrate assistive listening devices (ALDs) to clients.

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Supplemental · Task 17447 · 08/2020 · Incumbent

Assist audiologists in performing aural procedures, such as real ear measurements, speech audiometry, auditory brainstem responses, electronystagmography, and cochlear implant mapping.

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Supplemental · Task 17445 · 08/2020 · Incumbent

Diagnose and treat hearing or related disabilities under the direction of an audiologist.

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