CEU Courses

This pediatric grand rounds presentation presents case studies of six patients with hearing concerns. Collaboration, evidence-based practice, and innovation are used to obtain the best outcomes.

This course explores the role of emotional responses and facial expressions in individuals with hearing loss, emphasizing their importance in audiology. The impact of hearing loss on emotional recognition, emotional responses, advancements in facial expression recognition technology, and applications for improving clinical and educational outcomes are discussed.

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.

Hearing healthcare is not a siloed profession and we depend on our network of practitioners to improve the outcomes of our patients. This Grand Rounds presents cases where referrals helped, or would have helped, patients in achieving their best outcomes.

Hearing healthcare practices are responsible for ensuring the safety of the professional staff as well as the patients and others who enter the practice. This course discusses the risk of infection in the hearing professionals’ workspace and risk prevention tools to develop an office infection control protocol.

Explore the new tools for Visual Reinforcement Audiometry. Activate and change the stimuli presented to your patients directly from your audiometer without the use of a remote control or computer, utilize a wireless and battery-free VROCA button for play audiometry, and operate your audiometer from inside the booth directly on your VRA screen.

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.

With the goal of helping hearing-aid users in difficult listening situations, Edge Mode+, an on-demand processing feature, was designed for Starkey hearing aids to provide additional signal processing to optimize listening experiences. This presentation will review the research studies that demonstrate the benefits of this app-based, on-demand processing feature on multiple measures of patient outcomes

Ground Rounds by ReSound offers a 30-minute segment on programming hearing aids for the music lover. Because musicians have different listening needs, universal programming tips and fitting suggestions for ReSound hearing aids will be discussed.