CEU Courses

This course provides data from surveys sent to youth and young adults with hearing loss who participated in High School and College athletics as well as audiologists who work with this age group. Data provide motivation for the need for a resource providing guidance related to the rules surrounding technology use in sports, the laws promoting accessibility, and strategies for assisting high school athletes with the transition to college level sports and a link to a resource is provided.

ReSound Sound Shaper is a unique approach to frequency compression. This course will review its development, provide practical information for how and when to fit it, and outline use cases where it can benefit individual patients.

The course will provide a thorough review of Bone Anchored Hearing System patient indications, starting with the basics of how bone conduction works. It will also explain why providing amplification with a BAHS device can be so beneficial for those patients that fulfill the indication criteria. In addition, the presentation will look at when a patient is candidate for bilateral fitting, and if they are not which side to fit. Lastly, the course will explain why increasing the MFO of a BAHS device benefits all BAHS candidates, and take a brief look at the effect different methods of sound transmission (available with a BAHS device) can have.

Beltone hearing aids have a lot of industry leading features which can greatly improve a person's quality of life. This course will illustrate how these features function, making it easier to explain a feature's benefit to a patient.

This course will be an introduction to the various methods of on ear verification for hearing instrument fittings along with demonstrations of the verification assistant and test box settings tools in Phonak's fitting software. We will discuss implementation of these methods into your patient care routine. Join the discussion of Real Ear Verification methods for evaluation of proper hearing instrument function such as directionality, frequency lowering, and CROS fittings.

Explore the various connectivity options available with TruHearing Flyte that can increase your patients’ access to the world around them.

TruHearing Flyte: Made for iPhone® = TruHearing Flyte offers patients direct access to their Apple® devices. Learn how to pair hearing aids to Apple devices, initiate direct streaming and utilize iOS functionality.
TruHearing Flyte: TruHearing app  = TruHearing Flyte can be controlled using the patient’s smart phone through the TruHearing app. This module will describe how to use this app.
TruHearing Flyte: Bluetooth® and Phone Clip+ = With the use of the Phone Clip+, patients with Bluetooth enabled phones can stream phone calls to their hearing aids. Learn how to initiate connection and how to use the Phone Clip+.

This course will focus on incorporating hearing aid trials into the hearing aid consultation process, based on data from a system-wide initiative to enhance the audiology patient experience at University Hospitals Medical Center. The data demonstrates how the utilization of trials prior to hearing aid purchase reduced the number of tested-not-fit patients, and elevated the first fit hearing aid experience. In addition, trials resulted in higher technology fittings, increased purchase rate, reduced return rates, and higher patient satisfaction.

For more than two decades, Real Ear Verification Measurements have been positioned as the "Gold Standard" of the hearing aid fitting. This has resulted in verification often considered to be extra, rather than essential, to the plan of care. Perhaps we've been all wrong. Verification should not be the "Gold Standard" of the hearing aid fitting process, but rather the "baseline minimum." Let's explore.

This online course will provide a basic introduction to 3 practical tools that clinicians can use to help deliver person centered care to tinnitus patients. The course will review typical challenges from patient and clinician perspectives via ethnographic videos and offer an opportunity to clinicians to start conversations about tinnitus with their patients.

In this presentation, we will discuss the foundations of ethics and compliance in audiology, as well as U.S. regulations. We will explore the AAA and ASHA Codes of Ethics, state ethical guidelines contained in several state licensure laws, Medicare, HIPAA, the FDA Guidelines, Stark laws, and Anti-kickback laws and explain, in detail, how they relate to specific scenarios we encounter in audiology.