CEU Courses

This course describes hearing aid verification procedures that use and build upon setting gain to targets. With advanced tests of specific signal processors, and headphone systems that allow real-time listening checks during fitting sessions, we can improve patient engagement, provide better fittings, and save time in troubleshooting.

This course provides attendees with various tools and resources that can be applied to clinical instruction and professional development in the audiology profession.

This course discusses how a group of clinicians from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) embarked on a mission trip to Kraków, Poland, to provide vestibular services to Ukrainian refugees. Vestibular testing out in the community has broad implications on humanitarian efforts in audiology, education, and research within communication sciences and disorders.

This pediatric grand rounds presentation presents the unique characteristics of six pediatric patients with hearing loss. Out of the box thinking and collaboration are tools used to achieve best outcomes.

This course delves into the challenges of identifying hearing loss in young children and introduces an artificial intelligence (AI)-based method for distinguishing speech characteristics in children with and without hearing loss, potentially enhancing screening effectiveness. Additionally, it explores the validation of AI methods to enhance speech intelligibility assessment in children. Furthermore, NALguide, a user-friendly tool from the National Acoustic Laboratories, simplifies the understanding of hearing aid features, making it accessible to both clinicians and patients and promoting informed discussions about hearing aid technologies.

Educating patients on their tinnitus and how to manage it is a critical component of a comprehensive tinnitus treatment plan. This webinar reviews key components of an effective tinnitus education protocol, from the basics to advanced care and everything in between.

Although many clinical audiologists have never worked in an educational environment, they are an essential component to the classroom success of many children who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing. This course works to dispel misconceptions regarding special education law and classroom-specific listening needs for these children, as well as highlight opportunities for communication and collaboration between the audiologic clinic and schools.

This course describes recent research investigating how visual speech cues help children with typical hearing and children who are hard of hearing to compensate for degraded speech acoustics, such as noisy backgrounds and hearing loss. Information will include a description of the mechanisms that underlie the benefit from visual speech, as well as recent findings regarding how the benefit changes with age and how the benefit differs between children with typical hearing and children who are hard of hearing.

This course reviews how speech-in-noise (SIN) testing can be routinely used in the clinical setting, both for identifying functional capabilities, and for the selection and fitting of hearing aids. Specific attention is given to the QuickSIN test, describing applications, clinical protocols and test interpretation. Step-by-step guidelines and case studies are provided.

This course will begin with a discussion about how listening effort and affective processing may fit into the Cognitive Behavioral Model of Tinnitus Distress. The course will end with some clinical suggestions for verifying tinnitus sound generators, which can be used to help reduce tinnitus distress.