Audiologist – ANZSCO 252711

Description: Provides diagnostic assessment and rehabilitative services related to human hearing defects.
Skill Level: 1

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Skills Assessment Authority: VETASSESS

Description: AUDIOLOGISTS AND SPEECH PATHOLOGISTS/THERAPISTS provide diagnostic assessment, treatment, rehabilitative services and management of human hearing defects, and communication and swallowing impairments.
Tasks Include:

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

Skill Level: Occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with a bachelor degree or higher qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 1).

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