Obtain culturally sensitive and pertinent case history effectively, accurately, and with minimal expenditure of time.

Interpret test data accurately to the level of comprehension of the client.

Effectively counsel parent/guardian regarding child's hearing disorder; including education, social, and speech-language development.

Effectively counsel patients regarding hearing disorders and implications for management.

Effectively counsel patients regarding balance issues and fall prevention.

Complete control of marketing, testing, fitting, follow-up, inventory, and customer service.

Examine patients who have hearing, balance, or related ear problems.

Assess the results of the examination and diagnose problems.

Determine and administer treatment to meet patients' goals.

Provide treatment for tinnitus, a condition that causes ringing in the ear.

Fit and dispense hearing aids.

Counsel patients and their families on ways to listen and communicate, such as lip reading or through technology.

Evaluate patients regularly to check on hearing and balance and to continue or change treatment plans.

Record patient progress.

Research the causes and treatment of hearing and balance disorders.

Educate patients on ways to prevent hearing loss.

Collaborated with other staff audiologists, hearing aid dispensers, and administrative staff to ensure complete patient care.

Involved in the writing and administration of patient care records and clinical reports.

Networked with physicians, nursing, and rehab staff regarding patient care.

Prepared written reports of diagnostic test results and recommendations and referred to the appropriate professionals regarding patient care and management.

Coordinated with physicians, other audiologists, and state and national organizations to provide appropriate patient care and follow-up.

Maintained premium patient care at all times and earned the highest possible rating of exemplary on performance review.

Pure tone air conduction

Pure tone bone conduction

Masking for air conduction

Speech Recognition Threshold (SRT)

Masking for SRT

Word Recognition testing (quiet, noise)

Masking for word recognition testing

Tympanometry (multi-frequency & gradient)

Acoustic reflexes (ipsilateral and contralateral)

Otoacoustic emissions

Earmold impressions

Selection of appropriate earmold (style and acoustics)

Outcome measures: COW (Children Outcome Worksheet)

Outcome Measures: COSI (Client Oriented Scale of Improvement)

Electroacoustic analysis

Hearing instrument troubleshooting

Hearing instrument/earmold maintenance

Most comfortable loudness level

Loudness discomfort levels

Technology

Style

Microphone array

Other features

Use of fitting software

Speech audiometry

Functional gain

Assessment of directional microphone

Verification for linear amplifications (NAL-Revised/NAL-R)

Verification for non-linear amplification (Desired Sensation Level/DSL)

Real ear-to-coupler measurements

Loudness discomfort levels

Masking Level Difference (MLD)

Performance Intensity - Synthetic Sentence Identification/PI-SSI function

Staggered Spondee Word (SSW)

Pitch Pattern Sequence and Duration Pattern Sequence

Auditory Continuous Performance Test (ACPT)

Non-organic test procedures: Stenger

Ipsilateral Competing Message (ICM)

Chronic Care Model (CCM)

Dichotic digits

Dichotic Sentence Identification (DSI)

Tests for Auditory Processing in Adolescents and Adults (SCAN-A)

Tests for Auditory Processing in Children (SCAN-C)

Pediatric test protocol

Conditioned play audiometry

Conditioned Orientation Reflex Audiometry (CORA)

Behavioral Observation Audiometry (BOA)

Northwestern University - Children's Perception of Speech (NU-CHIPS); Word Intelligibility by Picture Identification (WIPI)

Pediatric Speech Intelligibility (PSI): Ipsilateral Competing Message (ICM)

Pediatric Speech Intelligibility (PSI): Chronic Care Model (CCM)

Performance intensity function for phonetically balanced words (PI/PB function)

Tone decay

Acoustic reflex decay

Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR): Neurological procedure

Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR): Latency-intensity function

Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR): Tone bursts

Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR): Bone conduction

Electronystagmography (ENG): Videonystagmography (VNG): Ocular motor tests

Electronystagmography (ENG): Videonystagmography (VNG): Positional tests

Electronystagmography (ENG): Videonystagmography (VNG): Dix - Hallpike maneuver

Electronystagmography (ENG): Videonystagmography (VNG): Bithermal calorics

Bone conduction ABR

Auditory Steady State Response

Electrocochleography/ECochG

Functional vestibular assessment

Audiometers

Hearing aids

Otoscopes

Cochlear implants