CEU Courses

This webinar reviews the Symphonia system, which enables hearing care professionals to simulate real-world listening scenes so that patients can experience the benefits of hearing aids and advanced hearing aid features. Symphonia provides 360° directional sound sources and allows the professional to change the angle and distance from which sounds are perceived by the patient in real-time.

Considerable variation exists across the medical and audiologic communities regarding determination of cochlear implant (CI) candidacy. While criteria exist from the FDA for children and adults and from CMS for Medicare beneficiaries, different clinics and even audiologists within the same clinic use varying protocols to determine CI candidacy in different age groups and also considering factors other than hearing status. To provide guidance on this topic, the ACI Alliance Board of Directors commissioned four papers to provide guidelines for candidacy for children and adults with bilateral hearing loss and those with single-sided deafness. Task forces were appointed to develop the guidelines with membership drawn from across the care continuum to include audiologists, surgeons, speech-language pathologists, and others involved in CI patient care. This course will review each of those four candidacy guidelines.

This course will introduce participants to the ACI Alliance Guidelines for cochlear implantation in children with single sided deafness (SSD). Instructors will use case studies to guide attendees through highlights of the document including candidacy, evaluation, and programming recommendations.

Starkey is excited to bring you a three-part series on the Inspire fitting software for an in-depth look at the professionally driven and patient-focused tools that make fitting Starkey hearing aids effortless. This final course of the series will focus on the tools that make patient follow up easy and impactful. We’ll discuss a variety of features for customizing the fitting and for supporting the patient’s overall journey with amplification. You’ll also learn some helpful clinical applications for unique features like Self Check, Expert Assistant, Verify Comfort, TeleHear, and more.

Healthcare professionals serve an important role for older adults amidst COVID-19 as we address activities of daily living (ADL), safety, quality of life, mental health, and other areas directly impacted by this virus. This text course will discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on how healthcare providers approach treatment with older adults.

This course reviews the foundations of HIPAA privacy, security, breach notification, and marketing requirements and guidelines as they relate to hearing healthcare. HIPAA requirements and considerations for telehealth are also covered. This introductory course is intended for new hire trainings as well as for annual review.

The indications for cochlear implantation have expanded to include patients with single-sided deafness (SSD) and asymmetric hearing loss (AHL). The present course reviews the current evidence and results from a systematic review that were combined to provide guidance for the clinical assessment and management of adults with SSD and AHL. This course is presented by AudiologyOnline in partnership with ACIA.

This course will define and demonstrate how Audioscan hearing instrument fitting and verification technology can be used to implement the most current recommended FM verification procedures, and how these procedures can be used for both the verification of FM and any remote microphone technology.

David Letterman may have created the Top 10 list, but Signia takes it to new heights with this informative and fun podcast. From their respective home offices, Leanne Powers and Brian Taylor reveal their Top-10 Signia innovations and how they contribute to patient benefit in everyday listening situations.

This is the first in a two-part series focusing on artificial intelligence. This session will provide an overview of the history of artificial intelligence (AI). This includes how AI is defined, how it has evolved over time and AI’s uses in a variety of industries. AI’s connection to cloud computing will also be discussed. Depictions of AI in popular culture will be shown. Examples of how artificial intelligence is used in daily life will be given.