Hearing Aids Adults CEU Courses Text/Transcript

This course includes short summaries of recent journal articles that have direct clinical applications. Key teaching points are explained. The summaries are from articles spanning five different areas: pre-fitting considerations, pre-fitting testing, features and signal processing, selection and fitting, and verification.

This article comprehensively examines the intricacies and applications of frequency-lowering technologies in hearing aids. It delves into the various methods of different manufacturers, detailing the technical aspects and potential impacts on speech perception. It emphasizes the need for careful consideration in applying these technologies, tailored to individual needs, and highlights the balance between enhancing audibility and preserving the perceptual distinctions between frequency-lowered speech sounds. The article is a crucial resource for clinicians and researchers, offering insights into optimizing hearing aid performance through frequency-lowering techniques.

Prior to the actual fitting of the hearing aid, there are several pre-fitting measures that must be conducted. In this article, we review four of these measures, and provide step-by-step guidance regarding their clinical implementation.

This course describes procedures associated with the varication and validation of the hearing aid fitting, including probe-mic assessment, sound field threshold testing and self-assessment outcome measures. Step-by-step “how to” procedures are included.

In the past year, the long-awaited OTC hearing aid category has arrived. In this article, we review the background of the regulation, some issue to consider regarding fitting optimization, and practical tips for the audiologists who want to be involved in the sales and service of this product.

In the everyday practice of hearing aid fitting, audiologists sometimes develop misconceptions about how hearing aids work, or different fitting practices. We reviewed a few of them in this article and did a little debunking using data from recent research.

This course reviews several issues related to following best practice when fitting hearing aids. Topics discussed include patient-centered care, speech in noise testing, loudness measures, output verification via real-ear measures, and self-assessment of benefit and satisfaction.

This course reviews several issues related to patient satisfaction following the hearing aid fitting, and how the HCP can work through these problems. Discussion includes reliance on patient judgments, acclimatization, and recent developments in machine learning.

This course reviews the issues surrounding the understanding of speech in background noise and how hearing instruments and fitting procedures can be used to help solve this problem. New and innovative hearing aid processing is discussed.