CEU Courses

The hearing healthcare landscape changed significantly in response to the COVID 19 pandemic and is continuing to change due to the recent implementations of new OTC regulations. In this course you will be presented with trends to gain insight into changing consumer values, ways in which the hearing industry and manufacturers have adapted, and how you can practically apply information from these emerging trends to your clinical practice.

Moderated by Dr. Catherine Palmer, this course brings together several experts from leading companies in hearing care as part of the 2023 AudiologyOnline Industry Innovations Summit. The theme is Supporting Individualized Patient Care. A wide arrange of products and services are discussed along with their supporting evidence. Insight into trends and changes in the hearing care market is also provided in this lively roundtable forum that includes a distinguished panel of presenters from Audioscan, CaptionCall, CareCredit, Cochlear, Phonak, ReSound, Signia, and Starkey.

Join to learn how social determinants of health are critical considerations for improving hearing health care for individuals and families. Dr. Bush’s research and clinical focus has moved the field forward in thinking outside of the “ear” and influencing positive change by looking at the 5 domains of social determinants to improve access to care.

This course reviews how Signia’s unique approach to signal processing, AX’s Augmented Focus, improves the signal to noise ratio of the wearer. Three different types of studies (benchtop, lab-based and real world) which demonstrate the efficacy and effectiveness of split-band processing are reviewed.

This webinar will provide practical advice and tips on how to engage, retain, and build a hearing healthcare practice in the challenging post-COVID job market of employee burnout. This webinar will provide useful, practical tips on employee training, efficiency, and streamlining procedures, then show how CareCredit fits and supports this opportunity.
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CaptionCall service and technology is available to all persons with hearing loss and who have difficulty communicating on the telephone. This course will help the Hearing Healthcare Professional describe the functionality and new features of the CaptionCall Phone, the CaptionCall Mobile App and the requirements for CaptionCall Services.

When a person seeks help for hearing loss, it is common for them to assume their hearing instruments will seamlessly allow them to hear well in any sound environment, especially where they have the most problems – in noise. ReSound realizes this is what users need most, and has made it our primary goal to develop technology that empowers users to navigate easily in ANY sound environment they encounter in their daily lives. This course will review the technology available from ReSound to help users in noise.

This course will introduce recent product enhancements in Audioscan hearing instrument fitting systems. New software tools and clinical techniques supporting accurate and efficient evaluation of hearing instruments will be discussed.

Successfully and effectively incorporating OTC hearing aids into your office without disruption to your workflow is possible. This course will describe lessons learned from early adopters.

Hearing aid processing of music is much less thoroughly researched than hearing aid processing of speech. This presentation will report on a study using normal-hearing listeners that evaluated the efficacy of programs specifically designed for music listening in state-of-the-art hearing aids. In addition, an analysis of signal processing and acoustic features relating to the results are discussed.