VA Selections CEU Courses

This 3-part course will examine ethics in various contexts for audiologists, from development of protocols, to discussions of typical real-world scenarios that face professionals in patient care and practice management.

This course reviews the evidence and rationale for creating individualized audiologic diagnostic and screening test batteries with an emphasis on maximizing diagnostic value and enhancing clinical efficiency. It provides practical information for audiologists to review their protocols and implement value-added changes.

This course provides an overview of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA), its relevance to audiology research and practice, a review of key studies using this methodology, and a look at potential future applications. This course is written in an engaging Q & A format.

Prescriptive targets are the primary means of ensuring that a hearing aid fitting is appropriate. However, it is only a starting point for audibility. The SII (speech intelligibility index) is another way to determine if the signal is audible to the patient. While these are both useful and necessary measurements, they can also be misused in the hearing aid fitting for adults. This course will discuss the importance of SII and targets and situations where the audiologists’ knowledge and interactions with the patients should over-ride these measurements.

This course provides a discussion of common acoustics terms, principles and phenomena and their relationship to audiology clinical practice, in an engaging Q & A format.