Hearing Aids Adults CEU Courses

Tinnitus is often associated with hearing loss but can also affect patients without any loss present. Understanding the basics of tinnitus can help identify the different masking options that will work best for patients. This course will examine available strategies to meet the needs of individuals with tinnitus and approaches that may be utilized using Starkey hearing aids.

Artificial Intelligence is emerging from every corner, from ChatGPT to the healthcare sector. AI-driven hearing aid technology can enhance speech, reduce noise, employ beamforming strategies, and even track health metrics. The course defines Artificial Intelligence, reviews AI’s role in healthcare including hearing aids, and covers Phonak’s application of AI throughout the past two decades.

This course explores the impact of Symphonia, a software designed to create immersive soundscapes, on hearing aid users. The study includes a survey of 28 patients, highlighting the software's effectiveness in enhancing patient satisfaction, involvement, and understanding of real-world sounds.

Grand Rounds by ReSound offers a 30-minute segment on lesser-known directionality options, including M&RIE, Spatial Sense, Soft-Switching, etc.

This webinar provides a review of methodologies for studying listening effort in hearing science, focusing on subjective and behavioral measures of effort. Recent hearing aid and cochlear implant research using these listening effort methodologies is also discussed.

Grand Rounds by ReSound offers a 30-minute segment on directionality options in Program 1, All-Around.

As hearing aid wearers engage with technology more than they have in decades past, hearing care providers (HCPs) must remain at the forefront of the field, providing wearers with solutions that will enhance their listening experience, both within the hearing aid – and beyond. This course will explore the ecosystem of Widex solutions designed to empower wearers to live confidently with their devices and hear their best in every situation.

This course describes a RIC hearing aid design that optimizes directional microphone orientation (angles) on the device. The results show improved directionality for speech-in-noise testing compared to traditional RIC designs.

An exploration of the fundamentals of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and its potential to revolutionize research on listening effort in individuals with hearing aids. In addition to research uses, the presenter considers its potential for clinical uses.

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 new updates to Bluetooth will usher in. The course highlights many important details, such as the timeline of the roll out, the types of use cases that Auracast will enable, and why these updates will help to alleviate the current clinician and patient frustrations with Bluetooth.