{"id":2537,"date":"2008-10-10T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T09:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everhear.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2019-09-18T14:38:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T21:38:32","slug":"what-is-an-audiologist-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/what-is-an-audiologist-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an Audiologist anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What Is an Audiologist? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Audiology is a highly recognized profession and has been ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of the Best Careers in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Audiologists are the primary health-care professionals who evaluate, diagnose, treat, and manage hearing loss and balance disorders in adults and children.<\/p>\n<p><strong> How much education does an Audiologist have? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Audiologists are now required to obtain a doctoral degree (Au.D. or Ph.D.). This became a requirement in the United States in 2007. All audiologists at Evergreen Speech &amp; Hearing Clinic have received their doctorate in Audiology, some even going back to school after year&#8217;s of practice (the profession transitioned to a doctorate level in the 1990&#8217;s). All states require licensing, and audiologists may also carry national board certification from the American Board of Audiology (ABA) or a certificate of clinical competence in audiology (CCC-A) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.<\/p>\n<p><strong> How can I learn more about the profession? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are many sites that have information on Audiology. Here are a few of our favorites here at ESHC:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiology.org\/\"> American Academy of Audiology <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asha.org\/default.htm\"> American Speech-Language Hearing Association <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiologist.org\/\"> Academy of Doctors of Audiology<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is an Audiologist? Audiology is a highly recognized profession and has been ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of the Best Careers in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Audiologists are the primary health-care professionals who evaluate, diagnose, treat, and manage hearing loss and balance disorders in adults and children. How much education&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"What is an Audiologist anyway?","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}