CEU Courses

This webinar is the third in a series of webinars that address diversity, equity, and inclusion in hearing healthcare. This webinar focuses on access and the impact of implicit bias on access to healthcare services, quality of service, and service delivery. In addition, this webinar provides tools for facilitating and implementing effective diversity and inclusion initiatives in a hearing healthcare practice.

This webinar is the second in a series of webinars that address diversity, equity, and inclusion in hearing healthcare. This webinar focuses on disabilities and the impact of implicit bias on service delivery. This webinar also explores the importance of the representation of people with disabilities as health care professionals and how this representation can impact the quality of patient care. In addition, this webinar provides tools for facilitating and implementing effective diversity and inclusion initiatives in a hearing healthcare practice.

This course provides a discussion of clinical offerings and case studies on Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) as well as resources that guide a clinician's decision-making.

This three-part series focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion in hearing healthcare. Attendees will be introduced to diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in mental healthcare, disabilities and the impact of implicit bias on service delivery, and the impact of implicit bias on access to healthcare services. In addition, this webinar provides tools for facilitating and implementing effective diversity and inclusion initiatives in a hearing healthcare practice.

This course will focus on updates involving coding, billing, managed care, and practice management for 2022.

This is the second in a two-part series focusing on artificial intelligence. This session will provide an overview of how artificial intelligence (AI) has been integrated in modern Starkey hearing aids. The various sub-categories of AI, such as machine learning and deep neural networking, will be reviewed. AI and signal processing and how this can provide clarity and comfort for the user will be discussed. Uses of AI to expand the definition and performance of the hearing aid, such as activity tracking, engagement tracking, fall detection, and the advent of the intelligent assistant, will be highlighted.

This course is designed to introduce participants to the importance of binaural hearing. We will highlight the benefits and challenges that hearing healthcare professional may encounter when working with this population and discuss management and treatment strategies to ensure successful outcomes.

This webinar reviews the Symphonia system, which enables hearing care professionals to simulate real-world listening scenes so that patients can experience the benefits of hearing aids and advanced hearing aid features. Symphonia provides 360° directional sound sources and allows the professional to change the angle and distance from which sounds are perceived by the patient in real-time.

Considerable variation exists across the medical and audiologic communities regarding determination of cochlear implant (CI) candidacy. While criteria exist from the FDA for children and adults and from CMS for Medicare beneficiaries, different clinics and even audiologists within the same clinic use varying protocols to determine CI candidacy in different age groups and also considering factors other than hearing status. To provide guidance on this topic, the ACI Alliance Board of Directors commissioned four papers to provide guidelines for candidacy for children and adults with bilateral hearing loss and those with single-sided deafness. Task forces were appointed to develop the guidelines with membership drawn from across the care continuum to include audiologists, surgeons, speech-language pathologists, and others involved in CI patient care. This course will review each of those four candidacy guidelines.

This course will introduce participants to the ACI Alliance Guidelines for cochlear implantation in children with single sided deafness (SSD). Instructors will use case studies to guide attendees through highlights of the document including candidacy, evaluation, and programming recommendations.