Health
Speech therapist and audiologist
Key facts
Employment in this job is holding up or growing in the United States, but it is highly exposed to AI. AI exposure: very low according to the ILO, high according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: +10.7% (BLS). Working well with AI is becoming an asset.
The job
Audiologists and speech therapists (ISCO 2266). Audiologists and speech therapists evaluate, manage and treat physical disorders affecting human hearing, speech, communication and swallowing.
Page built from official classifications (ILO, ESCO); figures cover all the jobs grouped here.
25 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- audiological scientist
- audiologist
- audiology expert
- audiology scientist
- audiology specialist
- expert in audiology
- hearing aid audiologist
- language therapist
- language therapy practitioner
- logopaedics therapist
- logopaedist
- paediatric audiologist
- paediatric speech and language therapist
- paediatric speech therapist
- practitioner in speech and language therapy
- psychomotor specialist
- senior audiologist
- specialist in audiology
- specialist speech and language therapist
- speech and language therapist
- speech pathologist
- speech therapist
- speech therapy practitioner
- speech-language pathologist
- technical audiologist
Training
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Gauges
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Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- ESCO, European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations (job titles and O*NET crosswalk)European Commission · version 1.2 · official statistics
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- Labour needs survey (BMO) 2026France Travail · 2026 · large survey
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.