American Auditory Society CEU Courses

This course reviews patterns of noise-induced cell death, changes in sound evoked hair cell and neuron response, and functional deficits, including both threshold shift and deficits “beyond the audiogram.” As investigational inner ear medicines enter clinical testing for possible prevention of cochlear injury or cochlear regeneration indications, reliable diagnostic metrics for specific cell and nerve injuries are becoming increasingly important.

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.

The course will present the latest findings on neurocognitive changes in hearing loss and effects of intervention with amplification and cochlear implantation.

The field of hearing health care research would benefit from evaluating and expanding pragmatic translational research approaches to extend equitable hearing health care and novel interventions to diverse populations. This presentation will explore pragmatic approaches to address health disparities through research and community-based program development.

Recent literature suggests an association between hearing loss and healthcare cost, but little is known about the deeper potential mediating pathways linking these variables. In this presentation, we will discuss the results of two studies aimed at characterizing attitudes towards health care seeking and preventable hospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries with self-report trouble hearing.

This course is intended to provide participants with an introduction to bilateral and binaural hearing, benefits gained from hearing with both ears. In addition, we will explore limitations due to cochlear implant processing of binaural cues, outcomes in patients and new ideas related to cognitive load.

OTC Hearing Aids will require the user to select their own gain profiles. This course will discuss several approaches to evaluating the efficacy of those profiles.

This course will review what cochlear implants have taught us about the developing auditory and vestibular system and examine the functional impact of rehabilitated sensory deficits

This course will discuss the anatomical structures and perceptual streams of the auditory cortex. It provides a review of how they make different contributions to the perception and production of speech and sound.

This course will discuss recent investigations on the perception and communication of vocal emotion in speech by child and adult listeners with cochlear implants. The effects of development due to age and hearing loss on vocal emotion recognition will be covered. Topics will include voice pitch perception with cochlear implants and with acoustic hearing, acoustic cues for vocal emotions, descriptions of our studies and results, and implications for patients with hearing loss, with or without cochlear implants.