CEU Courses

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.

Modern hearing aids are designed to improve and expand the functional communication abilities of persons with hearing loss. Unfortunately, not all devices on the market do this effectively. This podcast will introduce the term "superfecta", which is defined as the presence of these four essential features: rechargeability, extremely small form factor, direct streaming to smartphone and telecoil. The presenters argue that "superfecta" hearing aids both expand the multiple environment listening utility (MELU) and patients’ willingness to wear their devices consistently.

Non-surgical options for managing significant unilateral hearing loss include remote microphone and CROS systems. Although remote microphone systems are often the recommended choice for school-aged children, CROS systems have the potential to help adults and children in a variety of listening situations. This course will review recent research related to the potential benefits and limitations of CROS systems for adults and children with unilateral hearing loss.

This course is intended for audiology clinical externship coordinators, current externship supervisors, and those considering becoming a supervisor. The intent is to share strategies that make placements successful as well as ways to work through challenges from both a coordinator and supervisor perspective.

Today’s technologies are being transformed by AI and machine learning. AI provides new opportunities for hearing aids to do so much more for your patients. This session will discuss how AI extends the capabilities of hearing aid technology to perform tasks that can enhance your patient’s listening experience and assist them in their daily lives. A variety of intelligent assistant features patients want and demand such as Thrive Assistant, Translate and Reminders will be reviewed and demonstrated. Learn the benefits and conveniences these features can provide to ensure your patients get the most out of their Livio Edge AI hearing aids.

This session covers how to support children with severe to profound hearing loss described in the context of specific patient needs. Additionally, clinical decision-making to determine the best solution to address the developmental and educational requirements for hearing well in noisy situations will be reviewed.