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What Is an Audiologist ? |
What is an Audiologist?An audiologist is a qualified professional who specializes in the non-medical management of hearing loss and balance problems. An audiologist holds a degree (master's or doctoral) in audiology from an accredited university graduate program.
You can consult an audiologist for hearing impairment or balance problems. Audiologists are qualified to prescribe, dispense and fit hearing aids appropriate to your condition. You could take their help for a comprehensive facilitative program as well. Audiologists often refer patients to physicians should the hearing or balance problem require medical or surgical intervention.
When you consult an audiologist for a hearing problem, this is how he would go about his work-
- Take your complete history as a patient.
- Conduct a battery of specialized auditory and vestibular tests.
- Combine both to arrive upon probable treatment options for you.
- He can guide you with choosing the correct hearing aid according to the severity of your hearing loss.
Audiologists specialize in the study and research of the following -
- Identification and assessment of hearing and balance problems.
- Prevention of hearing problems
- Rehabilitation of persons with hearing and balance disorders.
- Normal as well as impaired hearing.
Audiologists operate and provide their services from a range of different facilities including public and private schools, medical centers, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, community clinics and health departments. Long-term health care facilities, community hearing and speech centers, research labs and physicians offices are some of the other possible work sites for audiologists.
A brief synopsis on the services offered by an audiologist would read like this -
- Hearing testing and complete analysis of hearing using specialized equipment.
- Hearing related counseling services.
- Hearing services for newborns, infants, toddlers and children.
- Hearing services for school children usually in the environs of public or private schools.
- Conduct hearing conservation programs.
- Provide services for hearing aids, assistive listening devices and personal alerting devices.
- Conduct hearing research.
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