CEU Courses

This course seeks to demonstrate the utilization of the Central Test Battery/Buffalo Model therapy as a viable and innovative means to diagnose and treat Auditory Processing Disorders (APD). This session will help clinicians interpret information from assessment results in the hope of furthering earlier identification, intervention and remediation.

This multi-course presentation will cover topics that the presenter learned from her own experiences launching a new private practice. The fifth webinar will discuss Medicare, third party payers, and third party administrators, including how to determine the best options for a start-up practice. Additionally, buying groups and audiology management groups will be discussed with the unique role they can provide in COGs cost and business growth.

This course focuses on the fundamentals of third-party payer/insurance contracting and credentialing. We will explore the steps involved in enrollment and credentialing and how to decide whether or not in-network participation is good for your practice.

Coaching Hearing Success for Adults with Hearing Loss

This Grand Rounds features a presentation of two cases to illustrate the assessment and management of patients with auditory processing disorders. Cases include one child and one adult. Following each case presentation, we will discuss information essential for identification, diagnosis, and management of patients with auditory processing disorders.

Research has linked physical health to the prevalence of hearing loss, and the prevalence of hearing loss to cognitive health. As hearing healthcare professionals, it is important to understand these relationships from the aspect of counseling patients on the impact of lifestyle on hearing and the benefit of hearing aids on listening lifestyle and satisfaction.

This course will provide an overview of current adult auditory rehabilitation clinical models and barriers that tend to present among various settings. We will review key auditory rehabilitation components and the potential roles of audiologists and speech-language pathologists in a comprehensive, patient-centered approach.

Although in-person care is likely to remain the gold standard after the Covid 19 pandemic, remote care (or eHealth) provides a boost in operational efficiency, offers added touchpoints that enhance patient outcomes and appeals to untapped segments of the market who until now have not sought help for their hearing difficulties. This 1-hour course will review how evidence-based practice and relationship centered communication can be implemented in a blended approach to hearing care, including use of Signia’s new suite of telecare services.

Learn more about how to help your patients during the pandemic with solutions on improving communication while wearing face masks.

This course will discuss findings from a qualitative study exploring the perceptions of teens, audiologists, and caregivers on tele-audiology and examining how a commercially available hearing aid fine-tuning service based on asynchronous tele-audiology could be optimized. Barriers to remote provision of fine-tuning services, suggestions for remote service protocols, and improvements in tele-audiology are also discussed.