CEU Courses

Starkey continues to break barriers with the exciting release of Edge AI, featuring new hearing technology and new solutions. This course examines the sophisticated sound processing technology that powers the new Edge AI product family. In addition, new updates to Starkey’s Pro Fit fitting software will be discussed.

Balance issues are often seen in conjunction with hearing loss and affect a large number of patients seen by hearing healthcare professionals. Many patients are looking for a way to be more proactive with their overall health, especially when it comes to their hearing and vestibular health. This course will examine the basics of Starkey’s newest tool utilizing our onboard sensor technology, Balance Assessment.

Accessories can enhance hearing aid patient’s experiences, providing wireless connectivity and convenience wherever the patient needs it. This session will provide a detailed overview of the Starkey wireless accessories that meet any patient's needs.

Starkey continues to deliver better hearing for all with next generation hearing aid technology that makes it easy to deliver maximum benefit for a diverse range of patients. This session will provide an overview of the Starkey products, features and accessories included in the November 2024 contract.

Creating maximum benefit and ease of use for a diverse range of patients is what drives Starkey to continue to deliver new technologies that are always future forward. This course will discuss Starkey’s latest technology innovations that continue to expand our innovative ecosystem. Starkey continues to expand the innovations of our Neuro processor, industry-first and only neural processing unit that is dedicated to DNN processing and onboard Sensors designed to deliver tomorrow’s technology, today.

Communication breakdowns are the most common cause of medical errors, and patients with hearing loss are at an increased risk for miscommunication. Medical errors are a preventable adverse effect of care. This course will review common errors in hearing healthcare and learn how to prevent, monitor, and respond to these errors and improve our overall standard of care.

Professionals in the hearing healthcare industry must follow a code of ethics. Ethical guidelines can vary based on experiences and perspectives; therefore, each practice should create their own specific code of ethics. These should be based on professional organization’s guidelines such as the American Academy of Audiology or the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. This course will discuss the difference between laws and ethics and the purpose of an ethics protocol in a hearing healthcare practice. An ethical decision-making matrix was also reviewed.

With the goal of helping hearing-aid users in difficult listening situations, Edge Mode+, an on-demand processing feature, was designed for Starkey hearing aids to provide additional signal processing to optimize listening experiences. This presentation will review the research studies that demonstrate the benefits of this app-based, on-demand processing feature on multiple measures of patient outcomes

When a patient seeks hearing help, it is because they want to hear better, enjoy the best sound quality, with as little effort as possible. This course discusses adaptive and on-demand sound management features that use science-based algorithms to power high fidelity audio modeled after the human auditory system.

Prescriptive hearing aid fitting rationales play an important role in successful hearing aid fittings. The ability to optimize the hearing aid response from the first fit forward is necessary to ensure the technology being fit provides amplification that is appropriate for the hearing loss, promotes effective communication, and addresses the individual needs of the patient. Hearing aid fitting formulas can also play a role in the acceptance or rejection of amplification. In this session, Dr. Dave Fabry discusses fitting formulas with Dr. Andrea Hannan Dawkes, Senior Education & Training Audiologist.