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Hearing Aid Specialist

Hearing Aid Specialist

  • Help improve lives by enhancing hearing and communication abilities.
  • Make a difference by customizing hearing solutions for individual needs.
  • Unique role in crafting and fitting personalized hearing devices.
💰 Earn $57K-$83K
📚 High School Diploma or GED

Overview

Select and fit hearing aids for customers. Administer and interpret tests of hearing. Assess hearing instrument efficacy. Take ear impressions and prepare, design, and modify ear molds.

Scoop

Minimum Education

High School Diploma or GED

Career Prospects

Excellent (Increasing by 5% or more)

Training Time

1 to 2 years

Job Openings

1,000 Annually

Median Earnings

$73,680 in California
$58,670 Nationally

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Day-to-Day

  • Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.
  • Counsel patients and families on communication strategies and the effects of hearing loss.
  • Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.
  • Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.
  • Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.

Best For You If...

YOU Like 💕

  • Relating with or serving others
  • Thinking and problem solving
  • Working with my hands

You are skilled in 💫

  • Active Listening
  • Coordination
  • Service Orientation
  • Social Perceptiveness
  • Speaking

You value 🙏

  • Accomplishing things
  • Job security
  • Personal relationships

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