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Career Description
Audiologists and speech-language pathologists diagnose, evaluate and treat human communication disorders including hearing, speech, language and voice disorders. Duties May Include
Audiologists perform some or all of the following duties:
Administer audiometric tests and examinations 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 hearing aid devices, teaching speech (lip) reading and providing counselling;
Establish personalized care plans working as a member of an interdisciplinary team;
Conduct research related to hearing;
May instruct students and other health care personnel.
Speech-language pathologists perform some or all of the following duties:
Administer tests and examinations and observe patients to diagnose and evaluate speech, voice, resonance, language, cognitivelinguistic and swallowing disorders;
Plan and implement remedial programs to correct speech, language and voice disorders;
Establish group and personalized care plans working as a member of an interdisciplinary team;
Conduct research on speech and other communication disorders and on the development and design of diagnostic procedures and devices;
May instruct students and other health care personnel.
Examples of Titles
Audiologist
Aural Rehabilitationist
Clinical Audiologist
Communicologist
Language Pathologists
Logopedist
Pathologists
Research Audiologist
Speech Pathologists
Speech-Language Pathologists Sources
The National Occupational Classification (NOC) Code found next to the name of the career is a 4-digit code that classifies occupations by different skill types and skill levels.
The information on careers is adapted from Canadian Occupational Projection System, a project by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, which uses annual data to analyze trends in labour.
© Canadian Occupational Projection System, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, 2011.
© JobFutures, Labour Force Survey, 2006.
© National Occupational Classification, Human Resources Skills and Development Canada, 2006.
© Working in Canada, Labour Force Survey, 2009.
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