CEU Courses

This webinar will review the fundamentals of immittance audiometry for both new and experienced clinicians in order to support best practices.

This presentation will describe best practices in pure-tone audiometry to ensure that results are valid. Further, the audience will learn important interpretation principles including determination of type, magnitude, configuration and symmetry of hearing loss.

At Sonic, it’s our mission to improve life through enhanced hearing, and we do it by offering people value. ‘Value’ can mean many different things in this industry and to the people who wear our instruments. Learn more about how Sonic is dedicated to the value of hearing, and how our products, services, and quality translate into value for you and your patients.

This course will provide participants with clinical information regarding cochlear implants in children with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder.

If the family’s desired outcomes for their child include spoken language, literacy, social competencies, and life development consistent with hearing peers, then beginning in infancy, every encounter, location, and environment must be viewed from an acoustic accessibility perspective. That is, in order for a child’s auditory brain centers to grow and develop, the child’s brain must be stimulated with sufficient quality and quantity of auditory events. This course will address acoustic accessibility and technology considerations. Case management to optimize auditory access will be discussed and strategies to repair speech perception deficits provided.

This will be a slide presentation showing otoscopy photos of the ear, to review normal otoscopic ear anatomy, as well as several common and some uncommon pathologies of the ear as identified otoscopically. (NOTE: for the first 10 minutes there is poor sound quality although the presenter is intelligible, and the quality is corrected at the 10 minute mark).

Traditionally, mothers have been the primary contact for professionals providing intervention or habilitative services to families of children with hearing loss. Fathers have been described as the secondary or peripheral parent. This course will present the results of a national survey of over 262 fathers of children with hearing loss that evaluated their perspectives on service delivery and their own roles as fathers of children with hearing loss. Professionals will gain new insights in how to be more inclusive of fathers in the clinical, intervention, or habilitative services that they are providing.

For some, obtaining an ear-mold can be a daunting procedure, especially when taking impressions for the new popular microCIC models. Join us to learn why it's not as scary as some make it seem.

Holidays are approaching and though a very busy time of year for families, opportunities for developing listening and speaking skills in young children abound. Theme based vocabulary, auditory, and pre-literacy activities will be illustrated in application to goals for children with various levels of speaking and listening skills.

Psychoacoustic models for speech intelligibility and loudness can be used successfully for deriving a prescriptive fitting rule specifically to high frequency hearing losses. This article describes the development of a new prescriptive fitting algorithm for high frequency hearing losses, OPEN, including a detailed rationale and supporting clinical studies.