Audiologists and Speech Pathologists \ Therapists

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 2034