This course will provide an overview of the unique rehabilitation needs of older adults who receive cochlear implants. We will review recent studies exploring how cognitive functions contribute to speech recognition and quality of life outcomes in adults with cochlear implants, demonstrating a need to expand our perspective of how we define and measure outcomes.

This course will provide an overview of current adult auditory rehabilitation clinical models and barriers that tend to present among various settings. We will review key auditory rehabilitation components and the potential roles of audiologists and speech-language pathologists in a comprehensive, patient-centered approach.

Research has linked physical health to the prevalence of hearing loss, and the prevalence of hearing loss to cognitive health. As hearing healthcare professionals, it is important to understand these relationships from the aspect of counseling patients on the impact of lifestyle on hearing and the benefit of hearing aids on listening lifestyle and satisfaction.

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.

This course will present concrete, specific therapeutic strategies for managing complex patients and their families. This may include patients who refuse to use their equipment, are non-adherent to medical recommendations, and/or other multicultural/diversity issues.

This course will review a multidisciplinary approach to auditory rehabilitation using case studies of adults with cochlear implants. Examples of professional roles, assessments, interventions, and outcomes will be discussed.

Understanding the motivations and behaviors of persons with hearing loss will be discussed in this podcast.

This 2-part course is designed to provide audiologic counseling for adult patients includes an understanding and effective use of patient-centered care (PCC) and family-centered care (FCC). This course will review evidence-based principles of PCC and FCC, and apply them to audiologic practices and will focus on identity, self-concept, social communication, self-determination and self-advocacy as part of the educational program.

Audiologic counseling for adult patients includes an understanding and effective use of patient-centered care (PCC) and family-centered care (FCC). This course will review evidence-based principles of PCC and FCC, and apply them to audiologic practices.

Social and emotional development is often overlooked in our academic-focused education systems yet the impact of social-emotional well-being for children who are deaf and hard of hearing has a significant impact on school performance and post-school outcomes. This presentation will focus on identity, self-concept, social communication, self-determination and self-advocacy as part of the educational program.