Speech Professionals & Audiologists

This occupation may include associated occupations with varying 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

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