Diversity, Equity And Inclusion CEU Courses

This course explores the integration of social determinants of health (SDOH) into audiology practice, emphasizing the impact of socioeconomic, educational, environmental, and healthcare access factors on hearing health outcomes. Participants will gain insights into identifying, addressing, and advocating for SDOH-related disparities to promote equity and improve patient care.

Cultural literacy is an important component of patient-centered care, but how this is addressed by audiologists and their respective workplaces remains largely varied. This session provides an overview of audiologists’ perspectives on cultural literacy and the degree to which audiologists are prepared and confident in delivering culturally sensitive care necessary for patient-centered care.

This course reviews the healthcare challenges that the Latino population face within the United States. It explores MED-EL’s Bilingual Program and the support this program offers to our professional partners and patients, to break down the cultural and language barriers that impact their overall success.

Recent research has indicated that millions of Americans, 0.7% of the total population, identify as transgender. This presentation provides an overview of transgender identity for clinical audiologists and summarizes the social, legal, and medical landscape of transgender identity as it relates to audiology and the auditory and vestibular systems.

This course will discuss ways of incorporating cultural humility into everyday practice. It will also stress the importance of self-reflection, to allow hearing healthcare providers to examine their attitudes on cultural humility and foster views about acceptance and inclusion to create more authentic and meaningful therapeutic relationships with their clients.

Join to learn how social determinants of health are critical considerations for improving hearing health care for individuals and families. Dr. Bush’s research and clinical focus has moved the field forward in thinking outside of the “ear” and influencing positive change by looking at the 5 domains of social determinants to improve access to care.

An increasing number of people who are neurodiverse (people who have conditions such as autism, ADHD, and dyslexia) are pursuing higher education, including education and employment in the field of audiology. This presentation by neurodivergent professionals promotes a cultural shift of inclusion for students, clinicians, researchers, and professors who identify as neurodivergent, and discusses the practical and ethical considerations for neurodiversity inclusivity in audiology.

Implicit bias training is an important first step in understanding the complexities of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in hearing healthcare. This course covers the current research on implicit biases as well as interventions for individuals and organizations to address implicit bias in a hearing healthcare setting.

Implicit bias training is an important first step in understanding the complexities of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in hearing healthcare. This course covers what implicit biases are, how they impact health professionals, and what interventions hearing health practitioners can do to address them.

The field of hearing health care research would benefit from evaluating and expanding pragmatic translational research approaches to extend equitable hearing health care and novel interventions to diverse populations. This presentation will explore pragmatic approaches to address health disparities through research and community-based program development.