Audiologists at Audiology Associates & Hearing Aids

Audiology: is a branch of science, studies about hearing, balance, & some related disorders. Persons who practice or treat those with hearing loss & proactively prevents related to damage are known as audiologists. It determines that someone can hear with normal range, if not

Portions of hearing (high, medium, or low frequency) are affected to degrees. An audiologist determines, hearing loss or vestibular abnormality is present then he or she recommends as a patient, e.g., hearing aid, cochlear implants, surgery etc.

 All the doctors of (Au.D) are a professional degree for an audiologist. Programs is designed to produce audiologists who are skilled, providing diagnostic & other services which are associated with the hearing balance, related to audio logical fields. Most of the individuals help patients primarily by diagnosing hearing loss & fitting some hearing devices.  

 

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  Training Period: completed in 4 years, students, having qualification in Speech Language Pathology & Audiology or Communication Science & Disorders. Students, not having background generally have to complete a 2^nd bachelors program; some scholars are trying to introduce a 5year program for the students without any background field.

All India Instituteof Speech & Hearing: is known as AIISH. This is an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. Institute was established in 1966, which is focused on the training professionals for speech & hearing sciences. It also conducts research in speech language pathology, audiology speech sciences, & hearing sciences etc. Most of the recent or current research activities focus on the early identification & genetics of hearing impairment, effectiveness, development of assessment materials & speech speaker, etc. It has been developed for normative data for speech & language acquisitions, children for different Indian languages, established a research fund from which some are getting award for special working in the fields of, neurology, genetics, epidemiology, otolaryngology, & clinical psychology etc. AIISH is recognized as a center of excellence in the area of deafness by WHO, World Health Organisation.

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 AIISH provides clinical services for speech, language & hearing disorders through clinical service program. The therapy clinics providing, assessment & intervention services, for variety of speech, language & hearing disorders applicable for all ages.