This course will provide an overview of various assessments that can be implemented clinically to increase our understanding of the comprehensive needs and important skills of adults with cochlear implants. We will explain how patient performance across a broad range of measures can guide individualized rehabilitation interventions and plans of care in order to optimize outcomes.

The course reviews the terminology, psychological aspects, and characteristics of persons displaying a false and exaggerated hearing loss (FEHL). It also gives specific techniques for interviewing, screening, counseling, and referring for psychosocial problems.

Families rely on hearing healthcare professionals for guidance to tools and resources along their journey to better hearing. Join us for a professional session to learn more about AB’s outcome focused aural (re)habilitation tools.

The Inspire programming software is designed to allow the professional to provide patients with all the benefits of the Starkey sound. With an easy and intuitive user interface, Inspire offers all the tools needed for every situation; from an efficient first fit to handling the most complex listening needs. Another essential part of today’s fittings is remote programming. This session will provide an overview of the latest version of Inspire and highlight updated and improved technology in the Hearing Care Anywhere remote programming platform.

This podcast will discuss how Signia hearing aids use beamforming to achieve directionality. Signia's Motion Sensor technology will also be discussed.

Providing audiological care for children with hearing loss and their families is rewarding, but unique ethical challenges can arise. The goal of this presentation is to provide audiologists with a framework for evaluating and resolving ethical quandaries that may occur in pediatric audiology.

This multi-course series will cover topics that the presenters learned from their own experiences launching new private practices. Topics to be include: a roadmap and timeframe of opening a practice, finances, funding, and developing the business plan, financing options, working with Medicare, third party payers, and third party administrators as well as marketing. This course series is sponsored by CareCredit.

This presentation covers pricing strategies available for diagnostic testing, hearing aid related items and services, and the hearing aids themselves. The importance of the breakeven analysis in effective pricing models, as well as Medicare and competition pricing is explained. Bundled and unbundled (itemized) hearing aid pricing models are discussed, along with their pros and cons, and how they function in various clinical situations.

This podcast provides audiologists with practical information about the delivery of audiology services via telehealth techniques and technologies, referred to as teleaudiology. Special emphasis is given to the role of low touch and no touch teleaudiology approaches in the COVID-19 era.

The hearing aid industry offers many Bluetooth compatible technologies for hearing aids wearers. This event will help the attendee understand what Bluetooth languages are used with Phonak Marvel 3.0 technology, how the hearing technologies communicate with their smartphone or tablet and how additional Phonak accessories connect and can be used to enhance their everyday listening.