CEU Courses

Hearing loss is known to coincide with a host of health-related issues, including mental health. Audiologists need be able to identify when emotional and psychological well-being is at risk in both the patients we serve and their close family members, who also are affected by these diagnoses. This course reviews models for delivering difficult information, the signs of potential mental health crisis, and discuss how to handle conversations surrounding mental health. Didactic cases from across the lifespan will be presented to highlight themes and differences when working with different populations.

Currently, many payers do not provide coverage to their beneficiaries for all services within audiology’s scope of practice. Some payers only cover medically necessary hearing and balance assessment services with no coverage provision for therapeutic services. Additionally, most payers do not cover the assessment and management services performed by audiologists, which are necessary for quality patient care. Audiologists must be knowledgeable of payer-specific policies for those with whom they contract and determine if their reimbursement covers the cost of providing the service. This session discusses case-based coding/payment options for audiologists to consider when providing non-covered audiology services.

This session addresses audiologists’ most common professional liability concerns, including emerging risks and ways that audiologists can protect themselves from liability exposures. Utilizing HPSO/CNA’s database of audiology closed professional liability claims, we can identify liability patterns and trends, we can highlight adverse events that resulted in financial loss or expenses, and we focus on the types of situations most likely to have serious adverse consequences for patients and create liability exposures for audiologists. Using this information, audiologists can examine their own current practices in relation to the claims and losses experienced by their peers.

This presentation reviews some of the medications that may lead to balance conditions and the risk of falling. The speaker will discuss drug classifications that may directly harm the vestibular system, and the myriad of medications that have dizziness, fall risk, and vertigo as prevalent adverse effects. In addition, the session will describe types of vestibular testing that may be done to better evaluate and treat these conditions in affected patients.

This course introduces original research on supporting sexual and gender minority (SGM) audiology students alongside best practices suggested in other fields. Guided group discussions will be used to identify strategies for implementing these practices in audiology programs and clinical placements to support students.

This webinar provides audiologists with information about considerations when working with Spanish-speaking adult patients with hearing loss. It will discuss assessment procedures, health literacy concerns, and the inclusion of interpreters in the clinical setting. Recommendations for culturally and linguistically appropriate communication and service provisions with this population will also be given. The focus will be on audiologists who experience a language barrier or mismatch with their Spanish-speaking patients.

This course discusses whether a mobile or house call audiology program is right for you and your business. This course covers a business analysis so that you can determine for yourself if mobile audiology is what you've been missing to create a truly differentiated and unique service offering in your market.

Bridging the gap between clinical research and clinical practice can be a difficult task for many practicing clinicians. This course aids clinicians in translating clinical research to everyday practice. Interactive case studies and article critiques are utilized throughout the session to allow participants to develop and improve their understanding of clinical research and its implementation in every practice.

This webinar explores adaptive strategies to deepen student learning, ways to help them self-assess their processes, and how we can assist them in making connections are discussed. Practical strategies that can be implemented in any setting are given.

This course is presented by members and a former member of the Academy’s Ethical Practices Committee (EPC). They review current ethical topics related to the audiology profession. Also included are discussions of ethical situations and the application of the Academy’s Code of Ethics to these hypothetical situations.