Audiologist

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DEFINITION: An Educational Audiologist is a health‑related professional who specializes in prevention, identification, and treatment of hearing loss for children ages 3 to 21 in the school system. An educational audiologist can also provide hearing screenings for school‑based Child Find programs.

Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following tasks, knowledge, skills, and other characteristics. This list is illustrative only and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions performed by positions in this class.

• Provide initial hearing screenings for children attending the Ocotillo Learning Center (including pre‑school, K‑1) and children being evaluated through Child Find. Screenings will include any combination of pure tone behavioral hearing screenings, tympanometry, and optoacoustic emissions depending on abilities of child.
• Provide 2nd hearing screens for those who fail initial hearing screens.
• Make referrals as necessary for medical treatment or for comprehensive audiology testing.
• Correspond in writing with parents regarding any failed hearing screening and provide recommendations for appropriate referrals (e.g., medical referral or audiology referral).
• Assist school nurse in maintaining classroom hearing screening result list for each teacher.
• Track all hearing screening results and report results of screenings to the Health Department at the end of the school year.
• Screen hearing for any child when there is teacher or parental concern.

• Provide summer hearing screenings for children being evaluated through Child Find. Screenings will include any combination of pure tone behavioral testing, tympanometry, and optoacoustic emissions depending on abilities of child.
• Make referrals as necessary for medical treatment or for comprehensive audiology testing.
• Track results of all hearing screenings.

To perform the job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The qualifications for this job description are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Working with students with behavioral needs.
• Having good planning and organizational techniques.
• Developing and maintaining cooperative and effective professional relationships with teachers, administrators, school nurse, nurse assistant, parents, and students.
• Using computer software related programs.

Work is performed in an indoor environment. Work requires frequent standing and motion.

• Licensed Audiologist in the state of Arizona.
• AuD degree in Audiology or Masters or Ph.D. with clinical competence certificate (CCC) from the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association.
• Experience as a licensed Audiologist working with the pediatric population for a minimum of 5 years.

Depending on the needs of the District, some incumbents in this class must be able to demonstrate fluency in both Spanish and English as a condition of employment.

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