CEU Courses

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.

This course is presented by faculty and AuD students at The Ohio State University. Five challenging pediatric cases that incorporate current evidence and perspectives of patient care will be discussed. Each case provides “take-home” messages to incorporate into clinical practice.

Caregivers play a critical role in helping patients live longer, healthier lives. Patients wearing Starkey’s Livio Edge AI hearing aids can view information about their social engagement, physical activity, and hearing aid use via the Thrive app. This information can be shared with family members and care providers via the Thrive Care app to provide them with peace of mind, knowing their loved one is safe and well, while patients can maintain their independence. This session will provide an overview of Starkey’s healthable features, the information that can be shared via Thrive Care, and the benefits and convenience of using the Thrive Care app for the patient, caregiver, and hearing healthcare professional. How to set up and use Thrive Care will be illustrated.

An in-depth discussion of how cortical neuroplasticity can be used clinically to investigate and diagnose hearing loss.

This course addresses infection control precautions both broadly and as related to COVID-19. It discusses how to select personal protective equipment, hand hygiene products, and disinfectants that are appropriate for hearing healthcare settings, as well as how to properly implement these and other infection control measures.

The co-morbidities of hearing loss include social isolation and loneliness, depression, increased risk of falls, as well as cognitive decline, and related dementias. In this presentation, we will describe how digital therapeutics are changing the face of healthcare, and then present an example of how digital therapeutics may be used to treat hearing loss and its downstream effects.