CEU Courses

Hearing loss is a barrier to patient-provider communication and contributes to sensory isolation. As such, hearing loss is associated with poorer health care outcomes and poorer experiences in the health care system. In this session, we will explore the latest research in this area and consider whether hearing care may modify outcomes.

When you’re busy in the clinic and can’t seem to get even the most mundane of tasks done, it seems like a “catch 22” to hire yet another person, then have to train them from scratch. But, the Audiology Assistant truly is the key to practice efficiency. In this course, you learn how to put together a plan to create a job description and training regimen for an Audiology Assistant that creates efficiency in your practice both quickly and easily.

This course is a recording of a live webinar following the introduction of Oticon More in January 2021. Oticon’s BrainHearing philosophy focuses on improving speech understanding in the most complex listening environments. New results prove Oticon More delivers better speech understanding with less listening effort. This webinar will briefly review specific outcomes, evidence and observations supporting the use of a deep neural network in Oticon More™.

Tinnitus management often requires an individualized approach. This course will provide an overview of tinnitus management with Unitron hearing instruments, using our latest products, and how these options can be personalized for your patients.

Current hearing aids have the technology and programming capabilities that allow us to obtain optimized audibility. This course provides a discussion of various tools that can be used to determine audibility for hearing aid users.

Meniere's Disease (MD) is one of the most intriguing and somewhat frustrating pathologies that, over the more than 150 years since its first description, has kept scientists and dedicated professionals busy searching for any development that would be helpful in curing affected patients. Histopathological studies have associated MD with the accumulation of endolymph in the cochlea and the vestibular organs. However, there are several comorbidities associated with MD, such as migraine, anxiety, autoimmune, and autoinflammatory disorders, which add more complexity to the phenotype. The goal of this lecture is to explain the approach to the diagnosis and treatment of MD, highlighting the importance of non-ablative therapy options and discussing treatment protocols after medical failure.

Historically, adults with normal hearing thresholds have not been candidates for traditional hearing devices, even though a sizable number of individuals in this group self-report communication difficulties. This course will review the emerging research that shows the linkage between subclinical hearing loss and other conditions such as cognitive decline and depressive symptoms. Additionally, the course will review emerging intervention strategies that hearing care professionals can recommend for this group.

When an audiologist states they are providing ‘Best Practices’, what are the standards, or the foundation, that helps to define best practices? This course will explain the importance of having practice standards for audiology, and what we are doing to create, publish, and maintain them.

This course is dedicated to reviewing fitting guidelines for children with a Ponto System. Specifically, the course will focus on best practices when fitting a child with a Ponto 3 SuperPower and a Ponto 4 Sound Processor. We will review the different parameters within Genie Medical as well as introduce new pediatric resources to assist with the fitting process of a young child.

This course outlines the evidence-based principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). It explores the components of CBT for tinnitus and the way in which these strategies can be delivered.