CEU Courses

This course explores recent research in younger and middle-aged adults with normal hearing to understand speech perception challenges. This course will cover different methods, including EEG, pupillometry, and computational modeling.

This presentation focuses on the audiologic, genetic, radiologic, vestibular, and surgical results of a 10-year-old girl with previously unidentified SSCD. Interprofessional collaboration and how to best assist these children in and out of the classroom with their hearing, technology, and symptoms of the dehiscence will be emphasized.

In a four-part discussion series, the Academy will address the range of incivilities and microaggressions that audiologists and students may experience in their various practice and education settings. The series will give voice to real experiences while offering practical tools and strategies within each discussion to help move the profession holistically toward committing to cultural humility in practice. Part one of the series will provide an overview of microaggressions and the framework of cultural humility, as well as begin to introduce strategies within the context of individual stories.

Migraine is a common neurological disorder with audiovestibular symptoms like tinnitus, hearing loss, and vertigo, requiring audiologists to understand its management. This webinar covers migraine mechanisms, management strategies, and their connection to ear disorders, providing practical information for clinical practice.

Working hard in your business instead of working ON your business? An audiology assistant may be just the thing to help create balance. But where to start? What can an assistant do? Not do? How do you find the right person, then train them? What do you pay them? With this learning module, you'll receive useful tools and an excellent understanding of how to take the first steps toward easily incorporating an audiology assistant into your practice.

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.