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.

This Grand Rounds session features audiologists and speech pathologists who specialize in diagnosing and managing pediatric patients. During this course, a panel of speech and audiology professionals shares 5 clinically applicable cases that helped them grow and innovate their clinical practice. The importance of evidence-based care is highlighted to achieve the best outcomes for pediatric patients.

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.

Cultural literacy is an important component of patient-centered care, but how this is addressed by audiologists and their respective workplaces remains largely varied. This session provides an overview of audiologists’ perspectives on cultural literacy and the degree to which audiologists are prepared and confident in delivering culturally sensitive care necessary for patient-centered care.

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.

The course begins with a summary of the limitations of pure tone hearing screening followed by a review of the rationale for objective hearing screening of younger school age and preschool children. Most of the course is devoted to a description of critical steps in the development and implementation of an evidence-based efficient and effective hearing screening program for children of all ages.