Teacher of the Hearing Impaired (ANZSCO 241512)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Teacher of the Hearing Impaired on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Teacher of the Hearing Impaired comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

AITSL applies the same base bar as its sibling codes — four years of higher education including a recognised ITE qualification, 45 days of supervised teaching practice inside it, Academic IELTS at 7.0 reading and writing and 8.0 speaking and listening — plus one year of specialisation study in hearing impairment at Bachelor level or higher. The detail that sets this checklist apart: if that specialisation study was completed separately from the ITE qualification rather than embedded in it, AITSL requires a minimum of 30 days of supervised teaching practice specifically with hearing impaired students, on top of the base placement requirement inside the ITE degree itself.

Where these applications come unstuck

The 30-day separate-study requirement is easy to miss precisely because it sits on top of an already-satisfied 45-day rule — an applicant who assumes the base placement covers everything can reach the application stage without ever having arranged practicum time with hearing impaired students specifically. It is also the detail that distinguishes this checklist from Special Needs Teacher and the nec code, neither of which currently states an equivalent rule, so comparing notes with someone assessed under a sibling code can give a misleading picture of what evidence you actually need.

An honest read on this pathway

MLTSSL and CSOL placement give this code the same full eight-visa reach as its sibling special-education codes, including the independent 189. The evidence path is genuinely narrower than 241511's, though — documenting practicum time with a specific student population is harder to reconstruct retroactively than general classroom experience, so it rewards planning the placement deliberately rather than assuming any special education practicum will do. As with every code in this family, a positive outcome still leaves state teacher registration to be arranged separately.

Whichever authority assesses you, the paperwork is the part applicants underestimate. The Document Vault keeps a single register of every document, what it was needed for, and what is still missing.

Talk it through with a registered agent

Whether nominating Teacher of the Hearing Impaired is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.

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