CEU Courses

The ability to counsel patients with hearing loss in a manner that educates and motivates them to pursue hearing health is an important skill for hearing care professionals. This series was designed to provide you with helpful strategies for encouraging patients to embark upon the journey to better hearing. Part I focused on how to establish great patient-provider relationships, shared ideas on how to provide impactful education on hearing loss and amplification and highlighted valuable tools for identifying the unique listening needs of patients. This course will explore how to make an expert technology recommendation, address how to help patients overcome a variety of objections to amplification, and conclude with professional tips for implementing the ideas shared in the series.

Starkey is delighted to bring you a 2-part series on Empowering Patients to Pursue Hearing Health. The ability to counsel patients with hearing loss in a manner that educates and motivates them to prioritize hearing health is an important skill for hearing care professionals. This series will provide you with helpful strategies for encouraging patients to embark upon the journey to better hearing. This course will focus on how to establish great patient-provider relationships, share ideas on how to provide impactful education on hearing loss and amplification, and highlight valuable tools for identifying the unique listening needs and goals of patients.

Dr. Dave Fabry talks to Dr. Sara Burdak, Chief Audiology Officer and Executive Vice President of Product Strategy, to discuss how treating hearing loss is key to successfully aging at home. The discussion covers the latest release of Evolv AI hearing aid technology and how updates to sound quality, TeleHear, Fall Detection, and Alerts deliver performance and features that can support the wearer’s goal of better hearing and better living.

Compression is a tool used to restore audibility while maintaining comfort for patients with reduced dynamic range. This course will review the basic premise and functionality of compression. It will also discuss types of compression, when to use compression and the benefits it provides for hearing aid wearers.

Dave talks to Barbara Kelley, Executive Director of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), about the organization’s mission of opening the world of communication to people with hearing loss, how they’re raising awareness of hearing aids, hearing aid adoption rates, and emerging technologies that are making the future of better hearing bright.

In this special episode of Starkey Sound Bites, Brandon Sawalich, Starkey President and CEO, joins Dave to give his reaction to the FDA’s long-awaited over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aid regulation, and explain why the hearing care professional will always be integral to better hearing.

Dr. Grace Sturdivant, of OtoPro Technologies, joins Dave during National Protect Your Hearing Month to share how she got into the hearing conservation business, why more hearing care professionals should embrace and sell hearing protection products in their practices, and how focusing on the needs of patients always leads to good things.

Peter Korn, Director of Accessibility for Amazon’s Devices organization, and Achin Bhowmik, Starkey’s Chief Technology Officer and EVP of Engineering, talk to Dave about the rapid pace of innovation specifically designed to help people with hearing loss. This includes their collaboration on Amazon’s Fire TV Cube, which enables it to stream exclusively to compatible Starkey hearing aids for private listening from favorite streaming services, apps, games, and even Alexa.

Every case of hearing loss is unique, and so is every ear. Ray Woodworth understands this so well, he teaches a class called “The Ear is the Boss”. For more than 20 years, Woodworth has worked alongside Starkey founder Bill Austin, mastering the craft of custom hearing aid solutions. In this episode, he explains why understanding the structure of someone’s ear is the key to treating their hearing loss, and why OTC hearing aids aren’t the right fit for everyone. He also shares some tricks of the trade when you’re shooting an ear mold impression and how to help your patients through the process. This episode is packed with news hearing care providers can use. Don’t miss it!

Disability rights advocate, public speaker and Vietnam veteran, Richard Pimentel, takes Dave through his hearing loss story, why he refused to change his dreams to fit his situation, how he became a key player during the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the difference between backpacks and baggage.