4.2ModerateShortage
Audiologists and Speech Pathologists \ Therapists
Health Professionals · Health Therapy Professionals
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Median Weekly Pay
$2,003
Full-time workers
Employment
21,200
Total workers
10yr Growth
+32.7%
Projected to 2035
Shortage Status
Shortage
JSA Official AI Exposure
Automation30.0%
Augmentation69.0%
Key Tasks
- •Administering and interpreting a wide range of audiometric tests to determine hearing efficiency and locate sites of detected hearing problems
- •Interpreting audiometric test results alongside other medical, social and behavioural diagnostic data
- •Evaluating total response pattern and acoustic tests to distinguish between organic and non-organic hearing loss
- •Planning, directing and participating in counselling, speech reading and other rehabilitation programs
- •Prescribing appropriate hearing aids and instructing patients in use
- •Administering tests and observing patients to determine nature and extent of disorders
- •Planning and conducting programs of remedial exercise to correct disorders such as stuttering and abnormal articulation
- •Administering individual and group therapy for rehabilitation of patients with communication problems caused by defective hearing, cerebral palsy, surgery and injury
- •Advising on treatment for children with difficulties in learning to speak
- •Counselling and guiding language-handicapped individuals, their families, teachers and employers
Employment Projections to 2035
Median Age
33
Female Share
96.0%
Part-Time Share
30.0%
Skill Level
1 / 5
Highest