CEU Courses

Starkey continues to move the technology of better hearing forward. By offering the industry’s only healthable hearing technology and allowing your patients to access the power of artificial intelligence, Starkey’s latest product fulfill the promise of “hear better, live better”. This session will provide an overview of Starkey’s latest healthable hearing technology features, technology levels & styles. Updates to remote programming and fitting tools will also be introduced.

This course focuses on the methodology and findings from a recent International systematic review and consensus process, establishing a standard of care for the treatment of adult patients with unilateral cochlear implant for bilateral severe, profound, or moderate sloping to profound sensorineural hearing loss. It also includes a review of "Terry Zwolan et al Development of a 60/60 Guideline for Referring Adults for a Traditional Cochlear Implant Candidacy Evaluation. Otology & Neurotology: April 20, 2020."

Given the economic uncertainty resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic for many persons with hearing loss, third party reimbursement for hearing aids is likely to rise sharply over the next several months. This course will provide practical and proven strategies that will help hearing care professionals navigate changes in the marketplace.

Since America is growing more diverse, cultural awareness has become more vital for day-to-day success. Discover four strategies that will help you develop a mindset that will facilitate a culturally-sensitive environment both personally and professionally, regardless of your work setting.

This course will provide an overview of various assessments that can be implemented clinically to increase our understanding of the comprehensive needs and important skills of adults with cochlear implants. We will explain how patient performance across a broad range of measures can guide individualized rehabilitation interventions and plans of care in order to optimize outcomes.

The course reviews the terminology, psychological aspects, and characteristics of persons displaying a false and exaggerated hearing loss (FEHL). It also gives specific techniques for interviewing, screening, counseling, and referring for psychosocial problems.

Families rely on hearing healthcare professionals for guidance to tools and resources along their journey to better hearing. Join us for a professional session to learn more about AB’s outcome focused aural (re)habilitation tools.

This podcast will discuss how Signia hearing aids use beamforming to achieve directionality. Signia's Motion Sensor technology will also be discussed.

This multi-course series will cover topics that the presenters learned from their own experiences launching new private practices. Topics include: a roadmap and timeframe of opening a practice, finances, funding, and developing the business plan, financing options, working with Medicare, third party payers, and third party administrators as well as marketing. This course series is sponsored by CareCredit.

This presentation covers pricing strategies available for diagnostic testing, hearing aid related items and services, and the hearing aids themselves. The importance of the breakeven analysis in effective pricing models, as well as Medicare and competition pricing is explained. Bundled and unbundled (itemized) hearing aid pricing models are discussed, along with their pros and cons, and how they function in various clinical situations.