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An Audiologist and Speech Language Pathologist belongs to an integrated health care profession in India. An Audiologist and Speech Language Pathologist is an independent professional such that his/her services and activities are not prescribed or supervised by another professional. However, he/she often collaborates with other professionals for provision of services

Educational Requirements/ Qualifications

Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists complete an undergraduate and/or postgraduate degree in the field of Speech, Language and Hearing from a recognized university from India or abroad. The postgraduate and doctoral programmes include a provision for integrated program in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology as well as specialization either in Audiology or Speech-Language Pathology. Individuals who have completed training in the integrated program of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the undergraduate level and/or post graduate level in India may practice as Audiologists and/or Speech Language Pathologists.

Clinical Services

Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologists provide clinical services to individuals across the entire life span from birth through adulthood and old age, belonging to diverse languages, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The clinical services are listed below for Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology individually.

Professional Roles and Responsibilities

The Audiologist and Speech-Language Pathologist provide a broad range of services and related activities including the following:

  • • Clinical Services
  • • Prevention and Advocacy
  • • Research, Training and Manpower development
  • • Administration

Practice Settings

Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists work in a variety of settings, including but not limited to:

  • • Health care settings (including hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, medical rehabilitation centers, mental health facilities),
  • • Regular and special schools,
  • • Early intervention programs/ Multi disciplinary rehabilitation centers,
  • • Industrial settings,
  • • Hearing aid and cochlear implant manufacturers,
  • • Manufacturers of devices/prosthesis for individuals with communication and swallowing disorders,
  • • Universities/colleges and their clinics,
  • • Professional associations,
  • • State and central government agencies and institutions,
  • • Research centers, and
  • • Private practice settings
  • • Telepractice Guidelines

    • Audiologists

    An Audiologist and Speech Language Pathologist belongs to an integrated health care profession in India.

    An Audiologist is a qualified professional who provides a comprehensive array of professional services related to the identification, diagnosis and management of persons with auditory (peripheral and central disorders), balance and related disorders, and the prevention of these impairments.

    Clinical Services: Audiology

    Clinical and/or instrumental screening, assessment, identification, diagnosis and management of:
  • • Hearing disorders in infants, children, adults and geriatrics involving both peripheral and central pathways of hearing
  • • Tinnitus, hyperacusis and Balance disorders.
  • • To deliver the above clinical services, behavioral, psychoacoustic, and electrophysiological measures related to the peripheral and central auditory systems may be used. Assessment of the vestibular system includes administration and interpretation of behavioral and electrophysiological tests of balance.
  • • Assessment, selection, dispensing, validation, verification and servicing of individual amplification devices and ear moulds. The individual amplification devices include individual hearing aids (analogue and digital hearing aids), implantable devices (cochlear implant and brainstem implant), bone-anchored devices and frequency altering devices.
  • • Assessment, selection and development of other appropriate hearing assistive devices and (re)habilitation regimes for individuals with hearing impairment, balance dysfunction, tinnitus and/or related disorders. The devices include assistive technology such as FM systems, induction loop systems, tinnitus maskers, tinnitus treatment devices, etc. Rehabilitation regimes include adult and child aural (re)habilitation, speech reading, tinnitus re-training, vestibular (re)habilitation, etc.
  • • Intraoperative monitoring.
  • • Medical legal consultation.

    • Practice Settings

    Audiologists work in a variety of settings, including but not limited to:
  • • Health care settings (including hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, medical rehabilitation centers, mental health facilities),
  • • Regular and special schools,
  • • Early intervention programs/ Multi disciplinary rehabilitation centers,
  • • Industrial settings,
  • • Hearing aid and cochlear implant manufacturers,
  • • Manufacturers of devices/prosthesis for individuals with communication and swallowing disorders,
  • • Universities/colleges and their clinics,
  • • Professional associations,
  • • State and central government agencies and institutions,
  • • Research centers, and
  • • Private practice settings

    • Speech Language Pathologists

    A Speech-Language Pathologist is a qualified professional who provides a comprehensive array of professional services related to the identification, diagnosis and management of persons with communication and swallowing disorders. Speech-Language Pathologists are involved in a number of different activities to promote effective communication and swallowing for the individuals they serve and prevent disorders of communication and swallowing.

    Clinical Services: Speech-Language Pathology

    Speech-language pathologists provide services to children (from neonates through to school age), adolescents, adults and geriatrics with special needs in the areas of communication and swallowing. The clinical services include, but are not limited to the following:

  • • Clinical and/or instrumental screening, assessment, identification, diagnosis, treatment, and management of
  • • Speech sound production delays and disorders including articulation disorder, phonological disorder, apraxia of speech, and dysarthria
  • • Language delays and disorders including comprehension and expression in verbal and/or non-verbal modalitie
  • • Fluency disorders including normal non fluency, stuttering and cluttering
  • • Voice disorders including disorders of phonation quality, pitch, loudness and respiration
  • • Resonance disorders including hypernasality, hyponasality and cul-de-sac resonance and mixed resonance
  • • Swallowing and feeding disorders
  • • Cognitive-communicative disorders including disorders of social communication skills, attention, memory, reasoning, sequencing, problem solving, and executive functions
  • • Pre-literacy and literacy skills including phonological awareness, decoding, reading, comprehension, and writing
  • • Communication and swallowing disorders in the context of other diagnoses or impairments including but not limited to hearing impairments, traumatic brain injury, dementia, developmental, intellectual or genetic disorders, and neurological impairments
  • • Development, assessment and selection of augmentative and alternative communication systems including unaided and aided strategies for individuals who have limited in their ability to communicate verbally, and provision of education and training in their use.
  • • Selecting, fitting, and establishing effective use of prosthetic/adaptive devices for communication and swallowing such as tracheoesophageal prostheses, speaking valves, electrolarynx, etc.
  • • Medical legal consultation
  • • Modifications or improvement of speech and language proficiency and communication effectiveness such as, care and improvement of professional voice.

    • Practice Settings

    Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists work in a variety of settings, including but not limited to:

  • • Health care settings (including hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, medical rehabilitation centers, mental health facilities),
  • • Regular and special schools,
  • • Early intervention programs/ Multi disciplinary rehabilitation centers,
  • • Industrial settings,
  • • Hearing aid and cochlear implant manufacturers,
  • • Manufacturers of devices/prosthesis for individuals with communication and swallowing disorders,
  • • Universities/colleges and their clinics,
  • • Professional associations,
  • • State and central government agencies and institutions,
  • • Research centers, and
  • • Private practice settings