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Becoming an audiologist is a wonderful and worthwhile way to help individuals who have hearing impairment issues. Audiologists are healthcare professionals who play an important role in a team-based approach designed to help and treat patients. More than half of audiologists work in hospitals or a healthcare setting. Around 13% of audiologist jobs are in schools and the education system. These professionals are known as educational audiologists.

Educational audiologists are responsible for helping students who are hearing impaired access their curriculum in school. This comes with a variety of duties, which include:

• Conducting tests and evaluations of hearing impairments in students.
• Fitting children with hearing aides as well as providing and maintaining assistive learning technology if necessary to facilitate learning in the classroom.
• Working closely with the student, family, as well as other education professionals in the regular and special education departments to create the best environment for children who are hearing impaired.

To become an audiologist, one should choose to major in speech-language pathology or communication science at the undergraduate level. If changing careers, prerequisite classes may be required at the undergraduate level before beginning a graduate audiology program. Audiologist training requires enrollment in an M.S. program which will provide a clinical fellowship to those looking to become a certified audiologist. After the graduate degree, many go on to complete their doctorate, or Au.D, which has become much more common and preferred. All of the required schooling for this audiologist doctorate takes about 8 years to complete.

Audiologist salaries depend on where they are employed, how much experience they have and what level of audiologist degree they possess. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, audiologists’ average salaries fall between $47,220 and $70,940.

Overall, audiology careers can be extremely rewarding. The nature of the job, whether employment is full-time, part-time or through contracts, is to help people one-on-one, which can be a wonderful and fulfilling way to make a difference in people’s lives. The nation is always looking for new educational audiologists to serve the ever growing population in schools and since the nurse is a vital component to any school, the profession is expected to grow in the future.

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