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Audiology - ✔✔The study of hearing
What are the two main areas of Audiology? - ✔✔diagnostics and management
What is the role of an audiologist? - ✔✔They are the primary service provider of hearing evaluation
including hearing aid dispensing. They require a bachelors and doctoral degree. 4 year doctoral program,
3 years at the university, and 1 year externship.
What is the role of an audiology assistant? - ✔✔They are essentially an expansion of Audiometrist role.
They perform basic hearing tests, repair hearing aids, check and clean hearing aids, fitting ear plugs,
assist with clerical tasks, assist audiologist in pediatric testing, allow audiologist to work more effectively
and see more patients. Education and training requirements for this profession vary greatly by state.
What is the role of a Hearing Instrument Specialist? - ✔✔They are hearing aid dispensers. They work in
retail sales. They share similar goals as an audiologist in providing appropriate hearing aid intervention
but they have limited scope of prated and limited training compared to an audiologist.
What is the role of an audiometrist? - ✔✔They perform basic hearing tests and hearing screenings.
These professionals are typically found in school settings or physicians offices prior to a referral to an
audiologist. They do not have well defined training requirements. They are only required to take 6
semester units or 8 quarter units.
What are the settings Audiologist and others in the hearing healthcare field work in? - ✔✔Hospitals,
healthcare settings: you are under physician supervision, no marketing, and you can not set your own
schedule, you work in a fast pace environment.
Private practice: you diagnose and rehabilitate, highest money maker, stressful, do your own marketing
and own your own business.
Educational Audiology: work in schools as educators, rewarding to help students, lower wages.
, Hearing conservation industry: Industrial and military
Medical audiology-New born hearing screening, neurological motoring, and vestibular evaluation.
Equipment and Hearing Aid industry: Manufacturers, sales reps, technical support
Why are people with hearing loss are a heterogeneous group? - ✔✔The disabling effect varies. There are
meany ear diseases, conditions and causes that underlie hearing loss, there's a variety of hearing loss
characteristics. The time factor varies, and developmental, psychosocial, and environmental factors also
vary.
Deaf vs. deaf - ✔✔Capital D- is deaf culture
lower case d-condition of not being able to hear. 3% of hearing impaired population are deaf.
Deaf vs. hard of hearing - ✔✔Deaf-cannot hear speech with or without a hearing aid
hard of hearing- have hearing loss but still have residual hearing. So they have difficulty hearing but
doesn't mean they do not understand speech with or without hearing aid. 97% of hearing impaired
population.
Hearing impairment vs hearing handicap - ✔✔Hearing impairment- broad term for having hearing loss.
Doesn't describe the degree or how much the person is affected.
Hearing handicap-how they are affected (functional limitations). They may not be able to hear on the
phone due to the impairment.
How many people are hearing impaired in the US? - ✔✔30 million, 10% of the US population.
How many people have hard of hearing in the US? - ✔✔29 million
Answers | Verified | Latest 2024 Version
Audiology - ✔✔The study of hearing
What are the two main areas of Audiology? - ✔✔diagnostics and management
What is the role of an audiologist? - ✔✔They are the primary service provider of hearing evaluation
including hearing aid dispensing. They require a bachelors and doctoral degree. 4 year doctoral program,
3 years at the university, and 1 year externship.
What is the role of an audiology assistant? - ✔✔They are essentially an expansion of Audiometrist role.
They perform basic hearing tests, repair hearing aids, check and clean hearing aids, fitting ear plugs,
assist with clerical tasks, assist audiologist in pediatric testing, allow audiologist to work more effectively
and see more patients. Education and training requirements for this profession vary greatly by state.
What is the role of a Hearing Instrument Specialist? - ✔✔They are hearing aid dispensers. They work in
retail sales. They share similar goals as an audiologist in providing appropriate hearing aid intervention
but they have limited scope of prated and limited training compared to an audiologist.
What is the role of an audiometrist? - ✔✔They perform basic hearing tests and hearing screenings.
These professionals are typically found in school settings or physicians offices prior to a referral to an
audiologist. They do not have well defined training requirements. They are only required to take 6
semester units or 8 quarter units.
What are the settings Audiologist and others in the hearing healthcare field work in? - ✔✔Hospitals,
healthcare settings: you are under physician supervision, no marketing, and you can not set your own
schedule, you work in a fast pace environment.
Private practice: you diagnose and rehabilitate, highest money maker, stressful, do your own marketing
and own your own business.
Educational Audiology: work in schools as educators, rewarding to help students, lower wages.
, Hearing conservation industry: Industrial and military
Medical audiology-New born hearing screening, neurological motoring, and vestibular evaluation.
Equipment and Hearing Aid industry: Manufacturers, sales reps, technical support
Why are people with hearing loss are a heterogeneous group? - ✔✔The disabling effect varies. There are
meany ear diseases, conditions and causes that underlie hearing loss, there's a variety of hearing loss
characteristics. The time factor varies, and developmental, psychosocial, and environmental factors also
vary.
Deaf vs. deaf - ✔✔Capital D- is deaf culture
lower case d-condition of not being able to hear. 3% of hearing impaired population are deaf.
Deaf vs. hard of hearing - ✔✔Deaf-cannot hear speech with or without a hearing aid
hard of hearing- have hearing loss but still have residual hearing. So they have difficulty hearing but
doesn't mean they do not understand speech with or without hearing aid. 97% of hearing impaired
population.
Hearing impairment vs hearing handicap - ✔✔Hearing impairment- broad term for having hearing loss.
Doesn't describe the degree or how much the person is affected.
Hearing handicap-how they are affected (functional limitations). They may not be able to hear on the
phone due to the impairment.
How many people are hearing impaired in the US? - ✔✔30 million, 10% of the US population.
How many people have hard of hearing in the US? - ✔✔29 million
