Aural Rehabilitation And Counseling Adults CEU Courses

Starkey is delighted to bring you a 2-part series on Empowering Patients to Pursue Hearing Health. The ability to counsel patients with hearing loss in a manner that educates and motivates them to prioritize hearing health is an important skill for hearing care professionals. This series will provide you with helpful strategies for encouraging patients to embark upon the journey to better hearing. This course will focus on how to establish great patient-provider relationships, share ideas on how to provide impactful education on hearing loss and amplification, and highlight valuable tools for identifying the unique listening needs and goals of patients.

Effective counseling practices make a tremendous difference in hearing healthcare. Being able to communicate the benefits of advanced technology in simple language patients can understand is the key element in this process. This course will provide suggestions for consumer-friendly language based on clear benefits when making a strong recommendation for premium technology as the standard of care.

This five-course series on adult assessments in hearing health is intended to stimulate collaborative approaches for hearing health professionals, regardless of what hearing technologies they typically provide. Ideally, professionals will support patients in their long-term hearing loss journey, facilitating transitions when appropriate and a comfortable sense of the range of ways hearing loss can be addressed throughout one’s hearing journey.

This course will review the multiple roles audiologists and hearing aid dispensers play in the continuity of care for hearing aid users—from screening and referring potential cochlear implant candidates to performing comprehensive cochlear implant evaluations prior to referring candidates to cochlear implant surgical teams. Adults with hearing loss live with a chronic condition that requires hearing services for life. Professionals working with them must be able to provide services and guidance to these patients throughout their lifespan. Depending on their licensure and scope of practice, hearing aid dispensers and audiologists can screen, assess, and counsel their own patients regarding cochlear implants as a treatment option.

Since COVID-19, offering hearing care follow-up support using the internet has gained traction, but is it a viable alternative or replacement for traditional in-person care? This podcast reviews one randomized controlled trial that compared a web-based follow-up support to in-person care. The implications of this study for practitioners will be discussed.

This course highlights some of the new tools and apps that are available for aural rehabilitation (AR). It will specifically explore how we have incorporated them into our cochlear implant (CI) program in a VA setting.

Starkey strives to make every step in delivering better hearing effortless, creating multifunctional devices that deliver effortless hearing, enhanced connection and a complete line of hearing aid styles. The Thrive platform incorporates Artificial Intelligence and Embedded Sensors to help deliver not only effortless hearing but also better living through features that provide assistance, convenience and peace of mind. This session will review Starkey’s Evolv AI product portfolio to guide you in selecting the optimal hearing solution for your patient.

The topic of verification seams to dominate, while validation becomes a lost art in a profession that continues to lean in a transactional direction. Join us while we focus our learning on practical methods and counseling strategies to bring the art and science together for outstanding fitting experiences.

It is important to understand how unseen barriers can affect access to care in Audiology. This course will explore the topic of trauma, how it relates to equity, trauma-informed care, and ways to implement this approach in the field of Audiology.

As lower-priced OTC devices become available to consumers, the need to address other factors that influence patient treatment readiness will increase in importance. Hearing care professionals must be prepared to address factors such as stigma if they want to effectively improve the uptake rate or hearing device usage and lower the age of first-time buyers. This podcast presents a strategy for addressing stigma through targeted patient education.