Audiologist/Speech Pathologist

Audiologist/Speech Pathologist

Speech Professionals and Audiologists provide diagnostic assessment and rehabilitation services related to human hearing defects, and assess and treat people with communication disorders and physical problems associated with eating and swallowing.

Audiologist/Speech Pathologist

Job Demand: High

Average weekly wage: $1,329

Where you could work:

Hospital - Gold Coast University Hospital, John Flynn Hospital

Medical centres - Australian Hearing

Government 

Audiologists/Speech Pathologists do the following 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