Audiologists provide diagnostic assessment and rehabilitative services related to human hearing defects.

Skill Level

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Unless you are exempt in very limited circumstances, you are required to have a positive Skills Assessment to apply for the visas listed above.

Skills Assessment authority for Audiologist is Vocational Education and Training Assess (VETASSESS). To have a positive skills assessment, you must meet the following criteria:

• A qualification assessed to the educational level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Bachelor degree or higher with a highly relevant major field of study + 1 year relevant employment
• The qualification must be within the following fields:
  • Audiology
  • Clinical Audiology
  • Audiological Studies
• For the purposes of employment, highly relevant tasks include: Assessing and diagnosing the extent of client hearing loss using a wide range of techniques, including audiometric tests; Reporting results of assessments and tests in writing and making referrals to medical practitioners; Recommending solutions to those with hearing impairment including amplification, implantable devices, medical interventions and assistive listening devices and providing aural rehabilitation programs; Providing counselling, advice and information to clients and families as a part of overall treatment; Assisting with the development and management of noise control and hearing conservation strategies.

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

Tasks

• 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).

Occupations in this Group

• 252711 Audiologist
• 252712 Speech Pathologist (Aus) / Speech Language Therapist (NZ)

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