How do they match: Audiologists

  • Educational Audiologist
  • Audiologist Assistant

  • Educate and supervise audiology students and health care personnel.
  • Administer hearing tests and examine patients to collect information on type and degree of impairment, using specialized instruments and electronic equipment.
  • Advise educators or other medical staff on hearing or balance topics.
  • Fit, dispense, and repair assistive devices, such as hearing aids.
  • Perform administrative tasks, such as managing office functions and finances.
  • Plan and conduct treatment programs for patients' hearing or balance problems, consulting with educators, physicians, nurses, psychologists, speech-language pathologists, and other health care personnel, as necessary.
  • Recommend assistive devices according to patients' needs or nature of impairments.
  • Refer patients to additional medical or educational services, if needed.

  • Manage healthcare operations.
  • Administer basic health care or medical treatments.
  • Adjust prostheses or other assistive devices.
  • Recommend types of assistive devices.
  • Train patients, family members, or caregivers in techniques for managing disabilities or illnesses.