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General Job Description: An educational audiologist is responsible for diagnosing, treating, and habituating children with hearing loss. An audiologist also educates teachers, parents, and children on management of hearing loss. Finally, an audiologist monitors the educational progress of students to insure the delivery of a free, appropriate education.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: ? Conduct audiologic assessment, inclusive of pure tone and speech audiometry, behavioral audiometry, acoustic immittance tests, evaluating tolerance and comfortable listening levels, binaural and monaural evaluations, dichotic listening tests, and other psychoacoustic measures. ? Design appropriate, educationally relevant treatment plans and determine appropriate treatment schedules as a member of a multidisciplinary team on request. Assist in the development of individual education plans for students recommended for audiological services. Services include training necessary for hearing impaired students to achieve maximum use of their residual hearing, continuing responsibility for monitoring hearing aids, monitoring classroom acoustics, and amplification equipment. ? Provide services to students, such as: aid selection fitting, and orientation to use, use of group amplification equipment, hearing conservation, auditory language skill development. ? Conduct audiological screenings, and or evaluations when students are referred according to the district procedures, and consistent with Educational Standards for New Mexico Schools. ? Maintain eligibility, placement, and treatment records, and provide documentation in a professional, efficient, accountable manner. ? Attend staffing and other school meetings when appropriate. ? Communicate results of evaluation and therapy services to educational staff, parents, and students, and when appropriate, with other professionals and agencies concerned with the students. ? Provide consultations regarding student needs, professional needs, and system needs in order for the system to achieve its goals. ? Re-define goals periodically and modify program service. ? Make recommendations on inventory of evaluation/therapy equipment. ? Provide basic equipment calibration services and design of routing maintenance/calibration schedule. ? Provide inservice/orientation training on request.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities: Other tasks as may be deemed appropriate and necessary by the immediate supervisor, the principal and/or the Superintendent.

Qualifications: ? Bachelors Degree. ? Masters degree. ? 30 graduate hours (which may be completed as part of a Masters degree program or in addition to the Masters) meeting the applicable program requirements as follows: ? The 30 graduate hours awarded by a New Mexico college or university must incorporate the New Mexico State Board of Educations approved competencies in the areas of audiology or speech pathology. ? The 30 graduate hours awarded by a college or university outside New Mexico must be for an audiology or speech pathology/communication disorder program approved by the New Mexico State Board of Education. ? All persons holding a valid New Mexico license in audiology or speech pathology on June 30, 1989 shall be entitled to licensure in audiology or speech pathology. Such licensure may be further continued pursuant to regulation(s) as established by the State Board of Education. ? Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Superintendent may find appropriate and acceptable.

Physical Requirements: Sitting, standing, lifting and carrying (up to 50 pounds), reaching, climbing, squatting, kneeling, and moving light furniture may be required.

Safety and Health: Knowledge of universal hygiene precautions.

Equipment/Material Handled: Must know how to properly operate or be willing to learn to operate all multimedia equipment including current technology. Knowledge of current technology, material and equipment used in the field of audiology.

Work Environment: Must be able to work within various degrees of noise, temperature, and air quality. Interruptions of work are routine. Flexibility and patience are required. Must be self-motivated and able to complete job assignments without direct supervision. After hour work may be required. May make site or home visits when needed and appropriate. Outside duties in various types of weather are routine. Must be able to work under stressful conditions.

Terms of Employment: Salary and work year to be established by the Board. ]{segoe="" ui",sans-serif"=""}]{segoe="" ui",sans-serif"=""}**