CEU Courses

This session walks clinicians through a typical hearing aid fitting using Real-Ear Measurement (REM) and interprets the obtained aided/unaided Speech Intelligibility Index (SII) values. The Expected Benefit with Amplification (EBA) tool is introduced to help clinicians assess the adequacy of their fittings and to counsel patients based on the measured improvement in audibility.

This course will provide in-depth review of Unitron TrueFitTM fitting software, review what’s new in Unitron TrueFit v5.2, highlight Unitron’s signature features and review Experience Innovations. These tools will enable clinicians to obtain the best possible outcomes when fitting Unitron products.

Practical information on ethical conduct and decision making for audiologists. Specific topics include models for ethical decision making in health care professions, ethical provision of audiology services via teleaudiology, ensuring ethical behavior of audiology support personnel, and real-life case study examples of unethical behavior in audiology.

This course will introduce the Widex AutoREM feature for use with Natus Aurical Freefit. The course will include step-by-step instruction on set up, provide quick fitting strategies in Compass GPS 4.3 software and give examples of using AutoREM for efficient and successful client fittings.

This course will explain the how the Deep Neural Network of Oticon More further supports noise reduction, allowing even better performance in the open-sound paradigm. We will also review research on how the brain processes sound in the auditory cortex and how the open-sound paradigm of Oticon More supports how the brain naturally works.

This course will introduce clinicians to the latest in bone anchored hearing device clinical research. Clinical evidence for best practices will be discussed in this hour-long course.

This course will review strategies that put the client’s needs at the center of hearing care guidance, recommendations and education. After taking this course participants will be able to identify efficient and effective practices that will motivate clients in their hearing care journey.

Learning Objectives:
• After this course, participants will be able to list the elements of person-centered hearing care • After this course, participants will be able to describe the benefits of person-centered hearing care to the hearing aid client and the hearing care provider• After this course, participants will be able to describe how Widex MOMENT supports goals of person-centered hearing care

Agenda
0-5 minutes: What does Person-Centered Hearing Care mean
5-10 minutes: Elements of Person-Centered Hearing Care
10-15 minutes: Case examples of applied Person-Centered Hearing Care

This course provides an overview of a monthly interprofessional case conference for health professions trainees supported by the Eastern Colorado Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC). The conference enables trainees from audiology, pharmacy, psychology, social work, speech language pathology, physical therapy and geriatric medicine to share and discover expertise and resources to enhance their practices when providing care to older Veterans and care partners. This course is presented in partnership with the Association of VA Audiologists (AVAA).

The ability of audiologists to visit social media sites such as Facebook’s Audiology Happy Hour to “crowd source” clinical opinions are popular, but there are several significant drawbacks. A preferred approach to tapping into the hive mind is using evidence-based practice (EBP) principles. This podcast reviews basic EBP principles, the value of the systematic meta-analysis and how they improve the clinical decision-making process and ultimately patient outcomes.

Tinnitus is a commonly seen symptom associated with hearing loss, but it can also affect patients without any loss present. Many new avenues of treatment options for tinnitus are being explored. Understanding the patient’s needs for maskers, medical intervention, and other treatment modalities can help build a customized plan of attack for tinnitus patients. This course will examine available strategies to meet the needs of individuals with tinnitus and approaches that may be utilized using Starkey Evolv AI hearing aids.