CEU Courses

Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is the most common inner ear disorder, with a cumulative lifetime incidence of 10%. This course will cover the Minimum Stimulus Strategy (MSS), a nystagmus-based approach to streamline BPPV management, reducing the need for diagnostic and therapeutic maneuvers and minimizing patient discomfort.

During this session, the speaker will meticulously analyze and decode hearing aid fitting outcomes utilizing the real-ear aided response (REAR) screen, catering to a wide array of challenging hearing loss scenarios: ranging from slight/mild to severe-profound, including asymmetrical, reverse-sloping, mixed, and conductive cases, among others. This webinar is designed to be an engaging, practical, and clinically-centered learning experience, offering actionable tips that can be readily applied within your clinical practice.

Early and accurate diagnosis is essential for providing appropriate treatment and improving patients' quality of life. Treatment approaches can range from canalith repositioning maneuvers for BPPV to lifestyle modifications and medication for conditions like Meniere's disease. This course will discuss the incidence, diagnostic approaches, spectrum of disorders, and typical symptoms clinicians must understand to provide effective care and support to individuals with vestibular disorders, ultimately enhancing their wellbeing.

Sheila Thelen, President of Vestibular Training Services and Master Rated Figure Skating Coach, applied these world-class vestibular training tools (USA Patent) in an innovation presentation on how spinning affects the vestibular system and can improve the brain’s ability to balance and cognitive processes.

Audiovestibular system assessment and management are crucial in head injuries to improve a person’s life. This lecture discusses the pathomechanism, epidemiology, clinical features, and management of audiovestibular injuries following head injuries and the legal perspective with the author’s own extensive case series.

During this session, the speaker describes how using computer-based audiological equipment can revolutionize the patient experience, as well as the practitioner's clinical workflow. The speaker also discusses strategies for optimizing older clinical equipment set-ups to facilitate data transfer in order to reduce or eliminate manual audiometric data entry.

This talk aims to unravel the fundamentals of vestibular assessments in children. It is specifically designed for clinicians taking their first steps in incorporating pediatric vestibular assessments into their practice.

Performing real-ear measures is a clinical win - win - win. It ensures patient audibility and therefore success with amplification. It aids confidence in the provider that they are delivering the highest standard of care. And it creates value for the practice by delivering clinical efficiency through the decreased need for adjustment appointments. During this course, we will discuss the setup of the real-ear equipment in a real office environment, how to structure patient appointments for measuring patient outcomes, integrating real-ear measures with hearing aid adjustments, and what to look for in hearing aid fitting. The goal of this course is to not only deliver efficient solutions that you can integrate into your office today, but also expand your thinking about ways to use real-ear in your clinical practice.

Vestibular disorders in children are a significant cause of childhood morbidity with various manifestations that are often unrecognized or undiagnosed. The etiological profile, phenotype, and management for peripheral and central disorders are markedly different from that in adults. The diagnostic algorithm with the latest technology is also different as children are far more difficult to obtain anamnesis from and to test as compared to adults. Examining a child is really an art that can come from years of experience and knowledge about the pediatric vestibular system and its development. It is also important to recognize the close overlap with pediatric neurology and indeed, a robust knowledge in neurology is essential to practice pediatric neurotology. This presentation includes an overview of the developing pediatric vestibular system in children, the etiology of pediatric vestibular disorders, the diagnostic process with evidence-based latest methods, and their management. The differences in pediatric vestibular diagnosis and disease profiles are also highlighted from the authors’ personal series.

This seminar will cover the scientific principles behind probe microphone measurements as applied in hearing clinics. We will briefly discuss the theory and go through how the PMM are performed in the clinic. The course is designed for audiologists seeing adult patients for hearing device prescription. Basic knowledge of PMM will be helpful.