Audiologist
Duties and Responsibilities: 1) Administer hearing or speech/language evaluations, tests, or examinations to patients to collect information on type and degree of impairment, using specialized instruments and electronic equipment. 2) Counsel and instruct clients in techniques to improve hearing or speech impairment, including sign language or lip-reading. 3) Evaluate hearing and speech/language disorders to determine diagnoses and courses of treatment. 4) Examine and clean patients' ear canals. 5) Fit and dispense assistive devices, such as hearing aids. 6) Maintain client records at all stages, including initial evaluation and discharge.
Salary: $69,720
Education and Demand for this profession may include: Completion of a doctoral degree in audiology generally requires at least four years of full-time study beyond the bachelor's level. Because they involve a research component, PhD programs may last as long as 5-6 years.
And a doctoral or master’s degree is also required in order to become an audiologist.
Reflection: do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?
I think that it would be an interesting job to do and pretty entertaining but I just don’t think that it is the job for me even though if I had no other option I would choose that one but I do have a choice so I wouldn’t.
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