Articles
Read CEU articles and transcripts from experts in audiology and industry.
Otoacoustic Emissions: Beyond Newborn Hearing Screening
March 14, 2011
An otoacoustic emission (OAE) is a low-level sound emitted by the cochlea either spontaneously or evoked by an auditory stimulus. Specifically, OAEs provide information related to the function of the... Read More
Hearing Evaluation - Adults Hearing Evaluation - Children Otoacoustic Emissions Pediatrics
How to Grow and Prosper, Part 2: Strengthening the Roots and Expanding the Branches
March 7, 2011
There are five general action plans we can navigate in order to grow and prosper a practice. In the first article of this series, Grow and Prosper in Uncertain Times these action plans were discussed... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Prioritizing and Planning in Your Practice
February 21, 2011
Transcript of the Live eSeminar This is an edited transcript of the live expert e-seminar presented on October 29, 2010. To view the Recorded Course, click here. In these busy times, there is a real n... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Bilateral Cochlear Implants
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February 14, 2011
This article is an edited transcript of the live expert e-seminar presented on November 3, 2010. To register to view the recorded course, click here. Today I'll talk about bilateral cochlear implantat... Read More
Cochlear Implants
Pediatric Amplification: Using Speech Perception to Achieve Best Outcomes
February 7, 2011
Editor's note: This is an edited transcript of the live expert e-seminar presented on 9/29/10. To view the course recording register here (include link).Click here to view the course recording. Mark R... Read More
Hearing Aids - Children Pediatrics
Buying and Selling an Audiology Practice: The Basics
January 31, 2011
Small businesses account for almost 75% of all companies in the United States. The idea of being your own boss is perhaps second only to home ownership as a characteristic of the American dream. As au... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Providing Amplification to the Aging Auditory System
January 24, 2011
This is an edited transcript of the live expert e-seminar. To view the course recording, click here. This course is part of a four-part series of seminars on AudiologyOnline entitled "Myths, Assumptio... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
The Silver Bullet for Your Business - Patient Retention
December 6, 2010
Many audiologists concentrate the preponderance of their resources and energy on searching for new patients, while often ignoring the opportunities that exist within their current patient base. Patien... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Effects on the Auditory System
November 22, 2010
Maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy results in a range of developmental abnormalities known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Fetal alcohol syndrome is the most severe manifestation wi... Read More
Medical and Surgical Hearing and Hearing Loss Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)
Fundamentals of Clinical ECAP Measures in Cochlear Implants: Part 1: Use of the ECAP in Speech Processor Programming (2nd Ed.)
November 8, 2010
Telemetry capabilities became commercially available in 1998 to measure the electrically evoked compound action potential (ECAP) from the auditory nerve in cochlear implant (CI) recipients. An initial... Read More
Cochlear Implants Electrophysiology
Pricing for Profit: How to Set Realistic Profit Margins
October 25, 2010
One of the most confusing concepts for the beginning practitioner, and often for experienced audiologists as well, is how to price goods and services for maximum profit. Laws regarding price fixing ar... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Fitting Hearing Aids to Babies: Three Things You Should Know - 2010 Update
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October 11, 2010
Today's pediatric audiologist has a goal to identify infants with hearing loss by 3 months, and initiate intervention by 6 months (Joint Committee on Infant Hearing [JCIH], 2007). In many cases, we ar... Read More
Hearing Aids - Children Electrophysiology Pediatrics
Conversation Therapy: Principles and Clinical Practices
September 27, 2010
Everyday conversation is the most common site of activity limitation/participation restriction (previously disability and handicap) arising from acquired hearing impairment. It is a premise of this pa... Read More
Aural Rehabilitation and Counseling - Adults
Earmolds and More: Maximizing Patient Satisfaction
September 13, 2010
This article is an edited transcription of the AudiologyOnline recorded course Earmolds and More (#16407). To view the recorded course, register here. Although it may seem like a basic concept, even t... Read More
Earmolds and Ear Impressions Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing Aids - Children Pediatrics
The N1-P2 Cortical Auditory Evoked Potential in Threshold Estimation
August 23, 2010
The N1-P2 complex was the first cortical auditory evoked potential (CAEP) to attract substantial research interest, initially in the mid-1960s using analog computers and later in the 1970s when digita... Read More
Electrophysiology Hearing Evaluation - Adults
Multifrequency Tympanometry in Infants and Children
August 9, 2010
Abbreviations: ABR (auditory brainstem response), B (susceptance), BBN (broad-band noise), CNHL (conductive hearing loss), DPOAE (distortion product otoacoustic emissions), EECV (equivalent ear-canal... Read More
Hearing Evaluation - Children Pediatrics
Grow and Prosper in Uncertain Times
July 26, 2010
This article is based on Dr. Hilbert's recorded course Grow and Prosper in Uncertain Times (#16385). To view the recorded course, register here As hearing health professionals, we stem from diverse ba... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Neurophysiological and Behavioral Processing of Small Frequency Changes in 8-11 Year-Old Children
July 12, 2010
Adequate perception of the physical aspects of sounds is essential for human oral communication; when a listener cannot perceive the auditory input because of either a hearing loss or another audit... Read More
Electrophysiology Hearing and Hearing Loss Hearing Evaluation - Children Pediatrics
Changing Consumer Behavior: The Realities of Audiology-centered Marketing
June 28, 2010
For most of us in the audiology profession, marketing is something that we have had to learn about on the fly. It is generally associated either with an individual practice's efforts to promote servic... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Pediatric Audiology - Case Review
June 21, 2010
Editor's note: This course is an edited transcript of a live expert e-seminar. To view the course recording, register here: /audiology-ceus/course/hearing-aids-children-aural-habilitation-children-hea... Read More
Cochlear Implants Aural Habilitation - Children Hearing Aids - Children Hearing Evaluation - Children Pediatrics Pediatrics Pediatrics