Hearing And Hearing Loss CEU Courses

This course will provide a comprehensive overview on hidden hearing loss—characterized by speech-in-noise hearing difficulties that occur even before audiometric thresholds are elevated. Specifically, this course will focus on the impacts of these hearing difficulties, as well as on the search for sensitive, non-invasive biomarkers appropriate for diagnostic purposes, and management interventions to effectively manage these hearing difficulties.

Outcome assessments are an essential component of measuring the effectiveness of clinical care on the individual, demonstrating the impact of clinical services on a population, and evaluating whether new technologies or approaches achieve similar or better results than what is provided currently. This course will discuss approaches that have been developed to ensure that the process of choosing what to measure is centered on what is important from patient and clinical perspectives, with examples from recent work at NAL, and the challenges and pitfalls in choosing how to measure outcomes but also the benefits of doing so carefully and consistently.

Individuals with significant hearing loss may be at risk for reduced vestibular performance following cochlear implantation. This course discusses these risks and provides appropriate recommendations for diagnosis and management.

This presentation will describe the complex relationship between behavioral health, emotional health, and hearing loss in older adults. In particular, the relationship between social isolation, loneliness, and hearing loss will be discussed.

This course explains the importance of audiological care for inpatient populations and provides specific instruction regarding how to implement an inpatient audiology program. This course is presented in partnership with the Association of VA Audiologists (AVAA).

This course features selected webinars from the series held in partnership with The Association of VA Audiologists (AVAA). Highlights include expansion of the telehealth program, aural rehabilitation and counseling, interprofessional collaboration, and how to implement an inpatient audiology program.

The field of hearing health care research would benefit from evaluating and expanding pragmatic translational research approaches to extend equitable hearing health care and novel interventions to diverse populations. This presentation will explore pragmatic approaches to address health disparities through research and community-based program development.

This course focuses on how language barriers impact access and quality of healthcare. It reviews the difficulties non-English speaking patients encounter when navigating the healthcare system and how that may impact the quality of services they receive. It also provides an overview of current trends in the use of professional interpreters, common errors interpreters make (professionals and ad-hocs), as well as parts of the message that generally do not get interpreted. Last it highlights the benefits of language concordance between the healthcare provider and the patient and lists some recommendations for clinicians working non-English speaking patients with special focus on the Spanish speaking population.

This course aims to provide participants with an overview of the clinical bimodal fitting practices and the NAL procedure for fine-tuning a hearing aid for use with a cochlear implant.

This presentation is designed to discuss the role of hearing aids/amplification in the treatment of functional hearing losses/auditory processing disorders.