CEU Courses

Children with deafness and autism have complex needs that require strong collaboration from a multi-disciplinary team for successful interventions. Service providers may feel uncertain about ways to coordinate and set priorities for these children. This series will explore multidisciplinary perspectives on deafness when it coexists with autism in an effort to help hearing health professionals gain better knowledge of autism and help understand the value of cross-disciplinary collaboration. Multi-disciplinary perspectives will be offered to help professionals recognize the early signs of autism coexisting with deafness, learn strategies to target more effective evaluation and interventions, and improve services to the child and family. This series will provide resources and clinical examples of Music Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Early Intervention, and School-Age Communication interventions for this unique population.

When deafness coexists with autism, sensory seeking behaviors may be present and interdisciplinary interventions will be necessary for success. Learn the normal development of sensory, attention, and play skills, and understand vestibular processing and how to create and manage interventions that are sensitive and responsive to sensory issues.

Recent surveys have revealed that 1 in 59 children with hearing loss also receives services for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) (Szymanski, Brice, Lam & Hotto, 2012). Current research demonstrates that many children with ASD respond more frequently and appropriately to music than to other auditory stimuli (Thaut, 1999, Whipple, J. 2004). This presentation will provide resources and clinical examples of music therapy as an intervention for this unique population.

Deafness and autism both affect communication, but deafness is frequently identified before autism. Learn to identify the differences in communication development when a dual diagnosis may exist, proper referral channels, and intervention strategies to promote early listening and communication skills.

Deafness and autism both affect communication, but deafness is frequently identified before autism. Learn to identify the differences in communication development when a dual diagnosis may exist, proper referral channels, and intervention strategies to promote listening and communication skills in the school-age child.

Management of unilateral hearing loss continues to challenge hearing professionals and the individuals it impacts. For these patients, Starkey’s Thrive platform offers contralateral routing of signal (CROS) and bilateral CROS (BiCROS) solutions that provide versatility and flexibility for many listening situations. With careful counseling, programming, and setup of options available in CROS systems, patients may easily enjoy the benefits that the technology offers. This session will discuss the rationale and candidacy for CROS and BiCROS and review the benefits and limitations. It will also describe Starkey’s Livio CROS system technology and features along with fitting protocols and programming considerations.

Randy Baldwin interviews three different experienced consultants and Key Opinion Leaders in the hearing industry on the changing hearing care audience and discusses various digital marketing channels to help hearing care professionals position their practice for recovery and growth.

For over 25 years, Advanced Bionics has been a leader in cochlear implant innovation. Leveraging the power of Phonak’s Marvel Platform, AB is introducing Naída™ CI M and Sky CI™ M sound processors which offer CI recipients customizable hearing solutions that are designed for each individual’s unique hearing needs. Along with the Marvel CI processors, AB is also introducing a new fitting software platform. Target CI is designed for faster, easier, and smarter fittings. Target CI supports wireless fitting of the new Marvel CI sound processors and Phonak Marvel Link hearing aids. This three-hour event will provide an interactive environment where you will learn about Marvel CI and how to fit it for your patients using Target CI.

New hearing aid technology in the past 5-10 years has resulted in vast improvements for the hearing impaired but also a whole new set of challenges for today’s hearing care professional. This course examines the current challenges facing hearing care professionals who dispense hearing aids and provides tips and strategies on how to overcome them.

Evidence-based guidelines for setting and verifying gain in hearing aid fittings are well established, but currently, best-practice recommendations for advanced settings are still in their infancy. The purpose of this presentation is to provide hearing care providers with guidance for setting advanced features in hearing aids based on scientific literature evaluating audiometric configuration, acceptable noise level, and previous experience with hearing aids.