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20Q: Understanding the Artificial Intelligence Revolution in Hearing Healthcare Delivery

Don Nielsen, PhD

November 11, 2024

This course introduces the student to the basics of artificial intelligence and explains AI’s role in transforming healthcare by emphasizing how it is changing Audiology. It also teaches you how AI...   Read More

 


20Q: What Exactly is “Normal” Hearing?

Christopher Spankovich, AuD, PhD, MPH

October 7, 2024

This course provides an overview of rationale for revising nomenclature for describing hearing loss.   Read More

 


20Q: Interventional Audiology - Improving Patient Outcomes

Lori Zitelli, AuD

September 9, 2024

This article reviews the necessary components of an interventional audiology program. Tips for the provision of effective care are provided.   Read More

  


20Q: Artificial Intelligence in Hearing Aids - HatGPT

Joshua M. Alexander, PhD, CCC-A

August 12, 2024

This course explores the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in modern hearing aid technology, focusing on how AI enhances user experience, sound quality, and device functionality. The latest...   Read More


20Q: Auracast is Here - What You Need to Know

Andrew (Andy) Bellavia

July 8, 2024

This course provides an overview of the history of Bluetooth and its shortcomings in the hearing space, leading up to Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast, and outlines the fundamental changes that these n...   Read More


20Q: A Decade of Teleaudiology Transformation and the Road Ahead

De Wet Swanepoel, PhD

June 10, 2024

This course dives into the transformative journey of teleaudiology over the past decade, exploring its rapid growth, the impact of mobile health technologies, and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pan...   Read More

 


20Q: Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids and Dementia - Don’t Let the Science be Hijacked by Hype

Kevin J. Munro, PhD, MSc, Piers Dawes, PhD

May 13, 2024

There is an association between hearing loss and cognitive decline, and hearing loss is also a risk factor for dementia. This course reviews the evidence that hearing loss causes dementia and treating...   Read More

   


20Q: Auditory Processing Disorders - Is there a Gold Standard?

Andrew J. Vermiglio, AuD

April 8, 2024

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...   Read More

 


20Q: Working with Medicare - Reimbursement Rules of Engagement

Anna M. Jilla, AuD, PhD

March 11, 2024

This article reviews Medicare coverage policies for audiology services. An overview of health policy statutes related to audiologist participation in the Medicare program are provided.   Read More

 


20Q: Changes to Auditory Processing and Cognition During Normal Aging – Should it Affect Hearing Aid Programming? Part 2 – Programming Hearing Aids for Older Adults

Richard Windle, PhD, MSc, CS

February 1, 2024

Part 1 discussed how a decline in some elements of cognition and auditory processing alters speech perception during normal aging. This course considers how hearing aids may help or hinder speech perc...   Read More

  


20Q: Changes to Auditory Processing and Cognition During Normal Aging – Should it Affect Hearing Aid Programming? Part 1 – Changes Associated with Normal Aging

Richard Windle, PhD, MSc, CS

January 8, 2024

Many aspects of cognition and auditory processing decline with normal aging, and this makes it difficult to hear in challenging situations, even without the additional problems caused by peripheral he...   Read More

  


20Q: Next-Level Hearing Aid Verification

Susan Scollie, PhD

December 11, 2023

This course describes hearing aid verification procedures that use and build upon setting gain to targets. With advanced tests of specific signal processors, and headphone systems that allow real-time...   Read More

  


20Q: Speech-in-Noise Testing - Too Useful to be Ignored!

H. Gustav Mueller, PhD, Todd Ricketts, PhD, Benjamin W. Y. Hornsby, PhD

November 6, 2023

This course reviews how speech-in-noise (SIN) testing can be routinely used in the clinical setting, both for identifying functional capabilities, and for the selection and fitting of hearing aids. Sp...   Read More

  


20Q: Optimizing Hearing Aid Processing for Listening to Music

Marshall Chasin, AuD

October 16, 2023

Music and speech have some differences which include spectral shape, intensity and “crest factors”. Most modern digital hearing aids cannot handle the more intense inputs that are characteristic o...   Read More

  


20Q: Social and Emotional Impacts of Hearing Loss—Empowering Audiologists

Bec Bennett, PhD

September 11, 2023

This course details research describing how hearing loss can affect a person's social and emotional well-being and how audiology services can better meet the social and emotional needs of their client...   Read More

  


20Q: Update on Cochlear Implants: Hearing Preservation, Single-Sided Deafness, and Personalized Fitting

Margaret Dillon, AuD, PhD, CCC-A

August 14, 2023

The course reviews new candidacy criteria for cochlear implantation, including when to consider referring for a cochlear implantation evaluation, considerations specific to new patient populations, an...   Read More

     


20Q: Auditory Biotechnologies - Finding Their Way to the Clinic

Rebecca M. Lewis, AuD, PhD

July 10, 2023

This article details the latest developments in the field of auditory biotechnologies that aim to medically treat hearing loss using a series of different approaches. The biotechnologies described in...   Read More

    


20Q: Occupational Audiometry

Deanna Meinke, PhD, CCC-A

June 12, 2023

Audiologists perform and review audiograms for many types of employers. This requires a fundamental understanding of the differences between regulatory agencies and best practices in the context of he...   Read More

  


20Q: Audiology Economics

Amyn M. Amlani, PhD

May 8, 2023

In this course, the reader is presented with a macro-economic viewpoint of the profession of audiology for both the demand- and supply-sides. The viewpoint is supported by evidence-based research and...   Read More

 


20Q: Tinnitus — Options for Clinical Evaluation and Treatment

James A. Henry, PhD

April 10, 2023

An article reviewing what an audiologist should know to provide effective tinnitus clinical services. The course is not comprehensive, but rather covers essential concepts and reviews methods of tinni...   Read More

  


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