CEU Courses

Signia delivers a better value with innovative solutions for a greater competitive edge, unparalleled support to help practices grow, and the commitment to service excellence to help businesses succeed. The Signia AX portfolio expansion continues by including more performance levels and CROS compatibility options. The audiological benefit of Augmented Focus will offer more with AX, now available in five levels. Two new feature updates to further optimize conversations and to reduce wind sounds to better engage in conversations outdoors will be introduced. In this session, the focus will be on how the new performance level offerings and features can extend their benefits to help more people with hearing loss.

Learning Outcomes
• Attendees will be able to list the expansion of form factors available on the AX platform.
• Attendees will be able to describe the wearer benefits of the new features available.
• Attendees will be able to list the advantages of added CROS compatibility on the AX platform.

Given their age, many hearing aid wearers are at risk for acquiring dementia. Additionally, hearing loss is believed to be a leading modifiable risk factor associated with dementia. For these reasons, it is essential for clinicians to stay abreast of the latest studies in these areas. The purpose of this podcast is to review recent studies addressing the topics of hearing loss, hearing aid use and dementia and how the findings of these recent studies can inform patient care.

Learn how to maximize Signia AX technology to personalize your patient’s prescription fitting. This course will focus on fitting adjustments in Connexx 9.8 to meet unique wearer needs and preferences.

65% of the people in the United States with mild to moderate hearing loss do not wear hearing aids. OTC hearing aids, a new class of hearing aids, will provide this group of individuals with a solution and start them on the journey to better hearing health. Learn about two unique products from Sony that fit this new class of FDA-registered, self-fitting hearing aids.

With the advent of OTC devices, it is believed that a growing number of people will take ownership of their condition and self-direct their care. Given the gatekeeper status of physicians and other licensed medical personnel, it is imperative they thoroughly understand the consequences of untreated hearing loss as well as the variety of treatment options. This podcast lays the foundation for how hearing care professionals can better educate the medical community about hearing loss and the assortment of device-related options.

Since COVID-19, offering hearing care follow-up support using the internet has gained traction, but is it a viable alternative or replacement for traditional in-person care? This podcast reviews one randomized controlled trial that compared a web-based follow-up support to in-person care. The implications of this study for practitioners will be discussed.

Today there are expanding options for patients who are looking at their hearing health. Providing multiple solutions is an important step to establishing trust and to promote acceptance of appropriate recommendations.

This article describes the factors associated with communicating in acoustically challenging social situations. Part 3 focus on room acoustics, signal-to-noise ratios and their consequences on older adults with hearing loss.

Shareef Mahdavi is a patient experience expert. In this podcast he shares several valuable insights on how to create more remarkable and engaging patient experiences, designed to set clinicians apart from OTC retailers.

Modern hearing aids are designed to compensate for the innate ability of individuals to differentiate between rapidly changing soundscapes. To improve performance across a wide range of soundscapes, hearing aids employ multiple programs, each geared to optimize performance in a different soundscape. Each program has a group of features tuned to optimize processing within each program. Signal classifiers allow for these programs to switch automatically without direct wearer interaction with the hearing aids, however some classification systems are more sophisticated than others, as this podcast addresses.