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About the Board of Registration of Hearing Instrument Specialists


By the Division of Professional Licensure

239 Causeway Street, Suite 500
Boston, MA 02114

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Zane Skerry, Executive Director
Paula King, Associate Director

Hearing Instrument Specialists are individuals who engage in the practice of dispensing or fitting hearing aids. The practice of fitting and dispensing hearing aids means the measurement of human hearing solely for the purpose of making selections, adaptations or sales of hearing aids intended to compensate for impaired hearing.

The Board of Registration of Hearing Instrument Specialists protects the public through regulation of the practice and the title of Hearing Instrument Specialist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in accordance with the statutes.