CEU Courses

This article provides insight in hearing aid wear time from a large manufacturer database. It explores the contribution of some known variables such as hearing loss severity, age, gender, and others to hearing aid wear time.

This course provides clinicians – especially Otolaryngologists and Audiologists – an update on when to refer adult patients for cochlear implant (CI) evaluation. Traditional adult CI candidates are those who have moderate to profound hearing loss in both ears and have had limited success from hearing aids. Here we provide information to referring clinicians on when it is appropriate to refer their patients for CI evaluation, including a review of new “60/60” criteria, use of CI technology for patients with single-sided deafness (SSD), and updates on electric-acoustic stimulation (EAS).

While reading mysteries can be fun when done as leisure, mysteries encountered in the clinic can be frustrating at best, and terrifying at worst! This course will explore some common and uncommon circumstances that can baffle even the most experienced clinician, with solutions and ideas for how to solve them if they happen to you.

This session walks clinicians through a typical hearing aid fitting using Real-Ear Measurement (REM) and interprets the obtained aided/unaided Speech Intelligibility Index (SII) values. The Expected Benefit with Amplification (EBA) tool is introduced to help clinicians assess the adequacy of their fittings and to counsel patients based on the measured improvement in audibility.

This course will provide in-depth review of Unitron TrueFitTM fitting software, review what’s new in Unitron TrueFit v5.2, highlight Unitron’s signature features and review Experience Innovations. These tools will enable clinicians to obtain the best possible outcomes when fitting Unitron products.

Practical information on ethical conduct and decision making for audiologists. Specific topics include models for ethical decision making in health care professions, ethical provision of audiology services via teleaudiology, ensuring ethical behavior of audiology support personnel, and real-life case study examples of unethical behavior in audiology.

This course will introduce the Widex AutoREM feature for use with Natus Aurical Freefit. The course will include step-by-step instruction on set up, provide quick fitting strategies in Compass GPS 4.3 software and give examples of using AutoREM for efficient and successful client fittings.

This course will explain the how the Deep Neural Network of Oticon More further supports noise reduction, allowing even better performance in the open-sound paradigm. We will also review research on how the brain processes sound in the auditory cortex and how the open-sound paradigm of Oticon More supports how the brain naturally works.

This course will introduce clinicians to the latest in bone anchored hearing device clinical research. Clinical evidence for best practices will be discussed in this hour-long course.

This course will review strategies that put the client’s needs at the center of hearing care guidance, recommendations and education. After taking this course participants will be able to identify efficient and effective practices that will motivate clients in their hearing care journey.

Learning Objectives:
• After this course, participants will be able to list the elements of person-centered hearing care • After this course, participants will be able to describe the benefits of person-centered hearing care to the hearing aid client and the hearing care provider• After this course, participants will be able to describe how Widex MOMENT supports goals of person-centered hearing care

Agenda
0-5 minutes: What does Person-Centered Hearing Care mean
5-10 minutes: Elements of Person-Centered Hearing Care
10-15 minutes: Case examples of applied Person-Centered Hearing Care