American Auditory Society CEU Courses

This course will provide an evidence-based overview of pediatric balance disorders, including symptoms, objective and subjective assessments, and other practical considerations for audiology clinical practice. This webinar is presented in partnership with American Auditory Society.

Patients with SSD (Single Sided Deafness) can be rehabilitated with conventional CROS or Bi-CROS systems (contralateral routing of signal), bone anchored hearing systems or with a cochlear implant (CI). The indications and results of the different treatments are presented. While the decision for CI surgery in children with acquired SSD is relatively easy due to the good results in adults, CI in children with congenital SSD has been discussed controversially. This course is presented in partnership with American Auditory Society. Note: This course has subtitles (captions). To access captions, click the Menu (three horizontal lines on the player bar) and select "English".

Military operations often involve high levels of noise and unique hearing-critical tasks, which can make it difficult for military audiologists to determine whether individuals with hearing loss can safely return to their duty assignments without endangering themselves and their colleagues. This webinar discusses some of the unique challenges of evaluating auditory fitness-for-duty in the military, and describes ongoing efforts to develop validated auditory standards that provide a direct link between clinical measures of auditory acuity and operational performance in military tasks.

This webinar is presented in partnership with American Auditory Society. Noise-induced hearing loss results when exposure to damaging levels of sound injures delicate inner ear structures and compromises vulnerable inner ear functions. Noise-exposed ears age, and they do so in ways different from unexposed ears. This talk will describe functionally important changes that contribute to noise-induced and age-related hearing loss and will summarize recent work that shows that prior noise continues to change the ways that ears and hearing age, long after the noise has stopped.

Neurons in the auditory system use specialized biophysical properties to accurately encode elements of sound important for normal hearing. This course will focus on how brainstem neurons develop specialization required for auditory temporal processing.This webinar is part of a series of webinars on AudiologyOnline presented in partnership with American Auditory Society (AAS) for 2014.