Aural Rehabilitation And Counseling Adults CEU Courses

Randy Baldwin interviews Dr. Robert Traynor, to discuss the importance of maximizing patient engagement to support a personal customer experience. This learning event focuses on the CareCredit credit card and Allegro Credit, and will not include info on other products or services.

More than 30 million U.S. adults have disabling hearing loss. In addition to negatively affecting the quality of life, hearing impairment is associated with dementia, depression, and social isolation. Despite the well-demonstrated benefits of hearing aids, relatively few eligible people (an estimated 15% to 30%) wear them. As federal regulations of over-the-counter hearing aids get closer to becoming reality, this course attempts to review the opportunities, threats, and challenges associated with hearing aids being sold over-the-counter without the direct involvement of a licensed audiologist. A primary focus of this course will be to demonstrate how the hearing care professional’s ability to customize along two fronts, customizing a start-gain target and customizing ear coupling, will allow them to stand apart from OTC and other online retailers.

Concussions are diffuse brain injuries that affect multiple organ systems, including sensory systems in the brain. In this course, Dr. Kraus will show that the auditory system is a common, but underappreciated, locus of disruption following a concussion.

Communicating the benefits of advanced technology and making a strong recommendation is an important step in the counseling process. Information shared as a result equips the patient to take the next step in their hearing healthcare. This course will share suggestions for consumer-friendly language to support the professional in recommending Oticon More as the standard of care for their hearing solution.

Evidence shows that person-centered care (PCC) not only improves outcomes, it can also yield efficiency savings through more personalized treatment plans and by helping people to better manage their own conditions.
This webinar outlines the fundamental principles of PCC and presents some of the key benefits. It introduces attendees to Inspired by Ida – a program established to help hearing care professionals implement PCC in their everyday practice, and includes concrete examples, shared by existing Inspired by Ida members, Carol L. Clifford from Albuquerque Hearing & Balance, Anne Rankin Cannon from Hearing Doctors of Georgia, and Kali Markle from the Utah State University Hearing and Balance Clinic.

Audiologists have an opportunity to prevent or mitigate hearing loss in children and adults. This webinar (Part 2) focuses on the importance of including information about comorbid conditions in the audiologic assessment and management.

Persons with hearing loss often struggle with emotional challenges directly related to these hearing difficulties. Too often, these challenges are going unnoticed by the hearing care professional. This podcast will review recent research findings related to the emotional challenges associated with hearing loss in adults and provide a strategy for how clinicians can better manage and account for these emotional challenges patients face.

Current hearing aids have the technology and programming capabilities that allow us to obtain optimized audibility. This course provides a discussion of various tools that can be used to determine audibility for hearing aid users.

Management of unilateral hearing loss continues to challenge hearing professionals and the individuals it impacts. For these patients, Starkey’s Thrive platform offers contralateral routing of signal (CROS) and bilateral CROS (BiCROS) solutions that provide versatility and flexibility for many listening situations. With careful counseling, programming, and setup of options available in CROS systems, patients may easily enjoy the benefits that the technology offers. This session will discuss the rationale and candidacy for CROS and BiCROS and review the benefits and limitations. It will also describe Starkey’s Livio CROS system technology and features along with fitting protocols and programming considerations.

The co-morbidities of hearing loss include social isolation and loneliness, depression, increased risk of falls, as well as cognitive decline, and related dementias. In this presentation, we will describe how digital therapeutics are changing the face of healthcare, and then present an example of how digital therapeutics may be used to treat hearing loss and its downstream effects.