A hearing aid dispenser is defined as:

• A. A person who repairs hearing aids
• B. A person who manufactures hearing aids
• C. A person who provides audiology services without devices
• D. A person engaged in fitting and selling hearing aids to a person with impaired hearing

Answer: (D)

The defining activity of a hearing aid dispenser is fitting and selling hearing aids to a person with impaired hearing. The focus is on providing a device that helps with hearing, ensuring it’s appropriate for the user, and making it available for use. That sets the scope of the dispenser’s role in New Jersey.

Repairing hearing aids involves fixing or maintaining devices already in use, which is not about selecting and supplying a device to a patient. Manufacturing hearing aids is producing the devices themselves, not necessarily fitting them to an individual or selling them directly to a user. Providing audiology services without devices covers clinical assessment or counseling without dispensing a device.

Therefore, the role described—fitting and selling hearing aids to someone with impaired hearing—best matches the definition of a hearing aid dispenser.