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Healthcare · Updated Aug 2026

Hearing Aid Specialists

Select and fit hearing aids for customers. Administer and interpret tests of hearing. Assess hearing instrument efficacy. Take ear impressions and prepare, design, and modify ear molds.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
65/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
54/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence84/100
Task coverage91%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Perform basic screening procedures, such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.High
74
Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.High
73
Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.High
74
Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.High
66
Counsel patients and families on communication strategies and the effects of hearing loss.High
60
Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.High
74
Diagnose and treat hearing or related disabilities under the direction of an audiologist.High
73
Assist audiologists in performing aural procedures, such as real ear measurements, speech audiometry, auditory brainstem responses, electronystagmography, and cochlear implant mapping.High
72
Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.High
24
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Perform basic screening procedures, such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.74
  2. Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.74
  3. Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.74
  4. Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.73
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.01
  2. Perform basic screening procedures, such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.02
  3. Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.03
  4. Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.04
  5. Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

Occupations O*NET links to this one. Relatedness reflects shared work, not a claim that these roles are safer.

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency75
Physical dependency38
Adoption pressure54
Labour-market resilience61
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence84/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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