CEU Courses

Real-ear measurements (REM) are considered hearing aid fitting best practice. There is a plethora of information on the benefits of real-ear measures; however, there is limited practical information on how the measurements are obtained. This introductory course will review the fundamentals of real-ear measurements using an Audioscan Verifit system. On-ear measurements using speechmapping will be demonstrated and discussed.

This course will examine available strategies to meet the needs of individuals with tinnitus, and approaches that may be utilized with Starkey Genesis AI hearing aids.

Given their training in the detection and non-medical management of both hearing and balance disorders, most audiologists believe that falls risk management is within their professional scope of practice. However few hearing professionals incorporate fall risk screening into their practice or feel sufficiently trained to do so. This course will discuss how attendees can work within their scope of practice to implement fall prevention and management to help reduce the burden of their patients' underlying risk factors of falling.

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.

Connectivity and mobile app adjustability have become an expectation of today’s hearing aid wearer. This course reviews the My Starkey app, which offers the Genesis AI hearing aid wearer full control, helpful tips, health tracking and access to assistance features for an enhanced yet simple user experience.

This course reviews Starkey's latest iteration of remote programming, giving you the ability to meet patients where they are. Telehealth has been heavily utilized over the last few years and Starkey wants to help the hearing care professional understand the value TeleHear brings to your patient services. Treating patients beyond the office setting has never been easier.

Starkey’s most advanced hearing device, Genesis AI with Neuro Sound Technology, upgrades the brain of the hearing aid as never before. The Neuro Platform unlocks many benefits and allows us to provide advancements in the areas patients desire most including sound quality, comfort and durability, connectivity, and personal health monitoring. Sound quality is at the top of the list for patients and sound quality is job #1 for Genesis AI, too. This session will provide an overview of the Genesis AI product line and the Neuro Platform. Starkey Pro Fit, the brand-new, professional-driven programming software will be introduced, along with the new patient-focused mobile app, My Starkey.

Starkey’s Pro Fit software offers professionals a world class fitting experience with Genesis AI hearing aids. It’s never been faster or easier to deliver the best hearing possible and meet the individual needs of each patient. This course will review Pro Fit software and highlight the simplicity of achieving a successful hearing aid fitting. The course will discuss how to fit and adjust Genesis AI hearing aids using software that was built by and for professionals.

Sound quality is key to a successful hearing journey. If a hearing aid does not deliver natural and seamless sound quality, nothing else the hearing aid does matters. Starkey has completely reimagined the modern hearing aid with Genesis AI, our latest innovation in hearing technology. Powered by the Starkey Neuro Processor, Genesis AI features a patented additive compression system and new proprietary fitting formula. Genesis AI also delivers Starkey’s first use of an on-board Deep Neural Network (DNN) accelerator engine and includes several improvements to noise reduction and streaming sound quality. This course will provide an overview of both the new and improved sound quality features within Genesis AI.