Audiologists and speech-language pathologists diagnose, evaluate and treat human communication disorders including hearing, speech, language and voice disorders. Audiologists and speech-language pathologists are employed in hospitals, community and public health centres, extended care facilities, day clinics, rehabilitation centres and educational institutions, or may work in private practice.
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- Amplification audiologist
- Audiologist
- Audiologist, research
- Audiology clinician
- Audiology specialist
- Certified audiologist
- Certified hearing aid audiologist
- Clinical audiologist
- Community audiologist
- Community speech-language pathologist
- Diagnostic audiologist
- Dispensing audiologist
- Educational audiologist
- Educational speech-language pathologist
- Industrial audiologist
- Logopedist
- Pathologist, speech
- Pathologist, speech-language
- Pediatric audiologist
- Research audiologist
- Specialist, audiology
- Speech and hearing therapist
- Speech pathologist
- Speech therapist
- Speech-language clinician
- Speech-language pathologist
- Speech-language pathologist clinician
- Speech-language pathologist researcher
- Therapist, speech
- Therapist, speech and hearing
Main Duties
Audiologists perform some or all of the following duties:
- Administer audiometric tests and examinations to diagnose and evaluate the degree and type of patients' hearing impairment
- Plan and implement habilitation/rehabilitation programs for patients, including selection, fitting and adjustment of hearing aid devices, teaching speech (lip) reading and providing counselling
- Establish personalized care plans working as a member of an interdisciplinary team
- Conduct research related to hearing
- May instruct students and other health care personnel.
Speech-language pathologists perform some or all of the following duties:
- Administer tests and examinations and observe patients to diagnose and evaluate speech, voice, resonance, language, cognitive-linguistic and swallowing disorders
- Plan and implement remedial programs to correct speech, language and voice disorders
- Establish group and personalized care plans working as a member of an interdisciplinary team
- Conduct research on speech and other communication disorders and on the development and design of diagnostic procedures and devices
- May instruct students and other health care personnel.
Employment Requirements
- Audiologists require a master's degree in audiology.
- Speech-language pathologists require a master's degree in speech-language pathology.
- Registration with a regulatory body is required for audiologists and speech-language pathologists in New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
- Membership in the national association, Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, may be required.
- In some jurisdictions, audiologists may be required to obtain a separate licence to dispense hearing aids.