Audiology technicians create and service hearing aids and hearing protection products. They dispense, fit and provide hearing aids for those who need them.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Examining, interviewing, and measuring patients in order to determine their appliance needs, and to identify factors that could affect appliance fit;
(b) Conferring with medical and dental practitioners in order to formulate specifications and prescriptions for devices and appliances;
(c) Interpreting prescriptions or specifications to determine the type of product or device to be fabricated, and the materials and tools that will be required;
(d) Making or receiving casts or impressions of patients' torsos, limbs, mouths or teeth for use as fabrication patterns;
(e) Designing and making orthotic and prosthetic devices using materials such as thermoplastic and thermosetting materials, metal alloys and leather, and hand and power tools;
(f) Fitting appliances and devices onto patients, testing and evaluating them, and making adjustments for proper fit, function and comfort;
(g) Repairing, modifying and maintaining medical and dental prosthetic and supportive devices, according to specifications;
(h) Bending, forming, and shaping fabric or material so that it conforms to prescribed contours needed to fabricate structural components;
(i) Fabricating full and partial dentures and constructing mouth guards, crowns, metal clasps, inlays, bridgework and other aids;
(j) Instructing patients in the use and care of prosthetic or orthotic devices.