This course examines both the Food and Drug Administration and best-practice candidacy assessment practices for pediatric cochlear implantation. Medical, audiology, speech-language pathology, and other assessments and considerations will be discussed to help identify best practices for candidacy determination.

Understanding generational differences can help to improve communication, increase workplace engagement, and lead to more productive audiological counseling and treatment. This course series will provide audiologists with information and ideas for working more effectively with people across the lifespan.

This course will present a new model of integrated psychology/audiology services that facilitates collaborative, patient-centered care. This course will also review strategies on how to counsel families in challenging situations, including poor device usage, anxiety/depression, family socioeconomic stressors, and barriers to care.

This course will discuss various ways to measure the quality of life in the cochlear implant population. In addition, data will be presented regarding the quality of life outcomes in adult cochlear implant recipients.

This course will review past and present cochlear implant candidacy criteria for pediatrics and adults, will discuss ways to identify potential cochlear implant patients and will list barriers to appropriate referrals. We will discuss evidence-based research and provide audiological case studies to aid the clinician in counseling the patient and their family on the need to pursue a cochlear implant evaluation.

This course provides a review and discussion of current research exploring factors that affect the listening and spoken language outcomes achieved by children with cochlear implants (CI), with key takeaways for audiologists. This article is written in an engaging Q & A format.

Educational audiologists are asked to work with a wide range of technologies in the classroom, and technology for children with cochlear implants is changing fast. Please join us to review current Nucleus technology, discuss the selection and fitting of remote microphone technology for children with cochlear implants, and hear about the unique connectivity available for today’s Nucleus recipients.

This course will review current topics in audiology treatment that are detailed in the upcoming book by Thieme publishers. Editor Dr. Jason Galster will provide a tour of content focused on the treatment of hearing loss through amplification, implantable solutions, and a variety of additional techniques.

This Grand Round Series from 2018 features clinicians from the University of Pittsburgh, Henry Ford Health System and the University of South Dakota presenting actual case studies on adult amplification with a range of audiological and medical diagnoses represented.

This course will discuss recent investigations on the perception and communication of vocal emotion in speech by child and adult listeners with cochlear implants. The effects of development due to age and hearing loss on vocal emotion recognition will be covered. Topics will include voice pitch perception with cochlear implants and with acoustic hearing, acoustic cues for vocal emotions, descriptions of our studies and results, and implications for patients with hearing loss, with or without cochlear implants.