CEU Courses Text/Transcript

This article aims to raise the awareness of the importance of the durability and reliability of hearing aids. It presents a survey, in which the durability, reliability and audiological performance of the Rexton Rugged hearing aids were assessed in real life.

This course serves as a practical start-up guide to designing a course or workshop for new instructors or those looking to polish their existing skills. With immediately-applicable steps starting from the very basics, this will guide readers to integrate goals with learning objectives, contents, and assessments.

There are very different generations in the hearing healthcare workplace and getting these groups to work together effectively is challenging. It is important to first understand each of these groups based on their strengths to bring out the beauty of diversity for the overarching purpose of preventing generational collisions from occurring in the workplace. This presentation will present a way to identify communication preferences and effective ways to approach others that have different viewpoints in a hearing healthcare setting.

The article discusses the importance of testing with users with different abilities. Further coverage of formative testing and universal design will be discussed.

This article describes the factors associated with communicating in acoustically challenging social situations. Part 3 focus on room acoustics, signal-to-noise ratios and their consequences on older adults with hearing loss.

This article describes the factors associated with communicating in acoustically challenging social situations. Part 2 focus on individual factors such as peripheral hearing loss and SNR loss, how to account for individual differences in the clinic and their effects on communication in noisy places.

This article describes the factors associated with communicating in acoustically challenging social situations. Part 1 of this series focuses on room acoustics, signal-to-noise ratios, and their consequences on older adults with hearing loss.

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.

Why audiologists should include vestibular-balance neurodiagnostics in their practices, and considerations for getting starting such as selecting a test battery, establishing referral sources, training, and more.

This course reviews the foundations of HIPAA privacy, security, breach notification, and marketing requirements and guidelines as they relate to hearing healthcare. HIPAA requirements and considerations for telehealth are also covered. This introductory course is intended for new hire trainings as well as for annual review.