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This group performs some or all of the following duties:

Audiologists

• Develop and administer audiometric tests and examinations using specialized instruments and electronic equipment to diagnose and evaluate the degree and type of patients' hearing impairment
• Plan and implement habilitation/rehabilitation programs for patients, including selection, fitting and adjustment of amplification devices, such as hearing aids, balance retraining exercises and teaching speech (lip) reading
• Educate and counsel patients and families regarding the nature, extent, impact and implications of hearing loss and treatment
• Establish personalized care plans working as a member of an interdisciplinary team
• Conduct research related to hearing and hearing disorders
• May instruct and supervise audiometric technicians, students and other health care personnel.

Speech-language pathologists

• Administer tests and examinations and observe patients to diagnose and evaluate speech, voice, resonance, language, fluency, cognitive-linguistic and swallowing disorders
• Develop, plan and implement remedial programs to correct speech, voice, language, fluency, resonance, cognitive-linguistic and swallowing disorders
• Establish group and personalized care plans working as a member of an interdisciplinary team
• Educate and counsel patients and families regarding communication and swallowing disorders
• Conduct research on speech and other communication disorders and on the development and design of diagnostic procedures and devices
• May instruct and supervise communicative disorders assistants, students and other health care personnel.

• Audiologists require a master's degree in audiology.
• Speech-language pathologists require a master's degree in speech-language pathology.
• Registration with a regulatory body is required for audiologists and speech-language pathologists in Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.
• Membership in the national association, Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, is usually required.
• In some jurisdictions, audiologists may be required to obtain a separate licence to dispense hearing aids.

• Progression into management positions, such as chief audiologist or director of speech-language pathology, is possible with experience.

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