CEU Courses

Oticon Opn™ introduced a paradigm shift in hearing healthcare providing speech understanding close to that of normal listeners. Now, Oticon is set to deliver even further improvements in speech understanding and listening effort. This session will review Oticon’s next generation of advanced technological options that promise to provide even better speech understanding for all listeners.

As our main target audience for hearing care shifts into the Baby Boom generation, so should our understanding of how these individuals view the aging process. The well-known attitudes and behaviors of this new generation of seniors will inevitably affect how they respond to developing communication difficulties.

This course reflects upon best practice in pediatric amplification and will discuss practical clinical strategies when following clinical guidelines. Meeting DSL targets, choice of test signal, applications of the RECD, and considerations for open/thin tube hearing device fittings for children will be discussed.

The Oticon Symposium in Pediatric Audiology is a recorded three hour virtual conference that explores current topics of interest to clinicians working in pediatric audiology. Our guest speakers include Dr. Marlene Bagatto and Dr. Sheila Moodie from Western University who will discuss considerations when fitting children with CROS and BICROS hearing aids and tools to help support families of children with hearing loss. The Oticon Symposium in Pediatric Audiology is provided with captioning.

Update on May 2020 Government Services contract offerings, with a brief review of Opn S, and introduce Oticon CROS and EduMic. This course will also focus on Selective Attention and Oticon’s new EEG research regarding Opn S products.

The majority of hearing aid users are older adults and, thus, it is incumbent to understand the nature of their perceptual difficulties. In this seminar, the effects of aging in combination with hearing loss on spoken language understanding will be examined.

Oticon Opn S features a unique approach to processing speech in complex environments – OpenSound Navigator. In this seminar, the effect of this signal processing approach on the ability of the brain to lock on to more than one speaker in the environment will be demonstrated. Further, the unique speed and effectiveness of OpenSound Navigator compared to alternative approaches will also be demonstrated.

Remote microphones are being utilized in schools to improve access to a teacher’s voice for children with hearing loss. However, little attention has been given to its design or usability by school-based professionals and their students. In this session, we will introduce research that impacted development of a device from Oticon that ushers in a new era of connection in the classroom and share its innovative features.

Many patients who seek out information about amplification may not be truly ready to be fit. In this course, we examine the mindset of the potential first time user and discuss approaches to make the patient ready to be a successful, long-time user.

Most attention in the development of hearing aid technologies focuses on assisting the patient in challenging environments. However, we also recognize that patients require comfort, great sound quality and practical solutions such as rechargeability, connectivity and apps.