CEU Courses

This article covers the innovation occurring within today’s hearing aids and consumer hearables, and highlights the key differences between the two product sets. In addition, the role of consumer hearables in helping to combat the “7-10-year gap” and ways that the hearing health value proposition might be enhanced in the coming years is explored.

A discussion on imperative education and resources from professionals to parents during the delicate time of identification of hearing loss. Stages of grief, how to facilitate shared decision-making for communication as a family, and significant roles to know and consider will be covered.

Restaurant dining experiences are among the most importance places where we communicate, yet they are immensely difficult places for older adults to communicate effectively. This interview with Dr. Rachael Piper will review her capstone study that examines self-perceived difficulties, willingness to pay, willingness to stay and speech intelligibility data as a function of hearing loss in older adults. Advantages and limitations of hearing aid technology and how to squeeze the most benefit from hearing aids in noise will be part of the conversation. While listening to this podcast, it is helpful to follow along with Figures 2 and 3 of the attached study.

There are assumptions and fitting decisions hearing care providers make when fitting amplification designed to address more typical patients. However, when fitting patients with more complex hearing loss those assumptions and fitting practices may become irrelevant. This course will review considerations and suggestions for amplification to achieve the best possible outcome for these patients.

The relationship between hearing loss, hearing aids, and cognitive impairment has been the subject of much discussion over the past decade or so. In this session, we will explore the literature surrounding hearing aids and cognitive impairment and apply it to clinical practice.

The Extend technology platform that powers Sonic Radiant hearing instruments showcases several new technologies and features. This 30 minute course focuses on 8 features that debuted with the Extend platform in a feature, benefit and value format.

This course will describe the language barriers often faced at an audiology practice in a major metropolitan hospital, and how these barriers are overcome to provide the best patient care. Different specialty areas of audiology will be discussed, including auditory processing disorders, adult amplification, and pediatric cochlear implantation.

The past decade has brought about changes in technology and criteria for treatment of severe to profound hearing loss. The capabilities of power hearing aids have dramatically improved with effective feedback management, Bluetooth connectivity, rechargeability, advanced noise management influenced by Artificial Intelligence, and the availability of a variety of innovative accessories. This session will focus on selection criteria and available options for fitting severe to profound hearing loss.

This course will introduce clinicians to the latest in bone anchored hearing device clinical research. Clinical evidence for best practices in adult and pediatric users will be discussed in this hour-long course.

Most clinicians recognize the importance of empowerment in the patient journey, but do they know what it really means for a patient to feel empowered? Find out in this engaging and informative podcast with WSA research scientist, Sarah Gotowiec, PhD, who reviews the five dimensions of patient empowerment and how clinicians can apply her research to empower patients more effectively throughout the patient journey. This recent open access article is the focus of her discussion: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14992027.2021.1915509