CEU Courses

The concept of custom hearing solutions has existed for many years yet is experiencing a recent renaissance as interest in custom hearing solutions has grown in recent years. This course will discuss the importance of personalizing the hearing experience with custom hearing products and methods to take safe and successful custom ear impressions.

This course provides an introduction to the current version of ReSound Smart Fit software. In addition to reviewing software basics, this course will make note of changes in ReSound Smart Fit 1.18.

The hearing industry offers many Bluetooth compatible technologies for hearing aid wearers. This event will help attendees understand what Bluetooth languages are used with Phonak technology, how the aids interact with Bluetooth devices, and how to troubleshoot functions.

In this session, Dr. Dana Suskind discusses how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other emerging technologies can be used to better understand and, thus, optimize the role that parents play in promoting early language and cognitive development in children with hearing loss and children with typical hearing. Dr. Suskind covers the existing literature on foundational brain development and language skill acquisition, with an emphasis on the crucial role that parents and caregivers play in this process. She also identifies gaps in our collective knowledge on this topic and explains how technology can help fill those gaps. Finally, she shares several examples of tools being developed at the University of Chicago's TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health that will help individual parents boost their children’s foundational development—and also allow society to better support all parents in this essential task.

This course is designed to be a learning discussion to introduce attendees to business concepts and terminology related to hospital-based pediatric audiology. Clinical differences will be discussed; however, the primary focus is for learning the business concepts.

There is no rest for the best as Starkey continues to deliver the leading edge in sound quality and hearing aid design and performance. This session will provide an overview of the latest Starkey products, features and accessories included in the May 2024 contract.

This course describes the origins and current views on the auditory processing disorder (APD) construct. This course includes a discussion of the identification of the “gold” or reference standard test (or test battery) used for the diagnosis of an APD.

Permanent hearing loss affects 2-3 per 1,000 newborns. When not identified early in life, children who are deaf or hard of hearing lag behind their peers in language, social, and cognitive development, fail more frequently in school, and have difficulty being successfully employed. Family engagement has been critical in the development of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) that have made it possible for most children who are deaf or hard of hearing to develop similarly to their peers with typical hearing. However, a number of challenges and opportunities for improvement remain. This presentation summarizes the history of newborn hearing screening, describes the current status, and discusses some of the important challenges and emerging issues that could be addressed to further improve early identification of childhood hearing loss. Lessons learned over the past decades, recent advances based on research and policy initiatives, and the crucial role of families will be used to highlight how various stakeholders (e.g., health care providers, public health officials, parents, and educators) can continue to improve outcomes for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

This course reviews pragmatic, applicable tools and strategies to help audiologists increase their comfort in counseling pediatric patients and their families. Additional resources and supports for families that can facilitate multidisciplinary strategies are discussed.

Current trends in tinnitus treatment are discussed by conducting a literature review across both audiological and non-audiological journals. This session provides participants with an overview of the tinnitus treatment-related literature that was published in 2023.