Audiologists determine the appropriate patient treatment by first understanding a complete history combined with a variety of specialized assessments, often working within interdisciplinary teams. Services are provided for infants, children, and adults.

• hearing and balance assessments
• aural rehabilitation and management of hearing loss, such as auditory training and speech reading
• hearing aids and assistive listening, alerting, and captioning devices
• hearing aid evaluations
• central auditory testing
• tinnitus (ringing in the ears) treatment
• hearing conservation
• retro cochlear investigations

Community services

• education programs for consumers and professionals on the prevention of hearing loss
• industry-based hearing conservation programs
• consultations with federal, provincial, and local agencies to reduce community noise
• research into environmental influences on hearing testing methods, and new rehabilitative devices such as cochlear implants