Practice Management And Professional Issues CEU Courses

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has identified that the majority of adults do not have proficient health literacy to understand health information, with some subgroups more adversely impacted than others. This course discusses the status of health literacy in the U.S., and evidence-based strategies to ensure that hearing healthcare information and services match individuals' capacity to understand and use them.

This course reviews and evaluates recent public health research that demonstrates an association between hearing loss and social engagement (loneliness, social isolation) and mental health outcomes in older adults, with a focus on depression and depressive symptoms.

A review and discussion of Federal and State regulations pertaining to hearing aid dispensing in the state of New York.

This course will discuss ways of incorporating cultural humility into everyday practice. It will also stress the importance of self-reflection, to allow hearing healthcare providers to examine their attitudes on cultural humility and foster views about acceptance and inclusion to create more authentic and meaningful therapeutic relationships with their clients.

This course describes the negative effects that untreated hearing loss can have on healthcare outcomes and the positive impact that interventional audiology can have on a patient’s care. Several examples and suggestions for providing interventional audiology services are discussed. This course is part of a four-course series, Destroying the Box: Innovative Audiologic Care Delivery which highlights the next generation of audiology innovators and their pioneering approaches to meeting unmet audiologic needs in their communities and beyond.

Concierge mobile audiology provides an alternative work environment to working in a traditional clinic. This course provides steps to creating and implementing a successful concierge mobile clinic. This course is part of a four-course series, Destroying the Box: Innovative Audiologic Care Delivery which highlights the next generation of audiology innovators and their pioneering approaches to meeting unmet audiologic needs in their communities and beyond.

This Fast Class offers conversation ideas and lifestyle considerations to help guide families along the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) journey. When you have a DHH child or family member, you become a DHH family.

Alicia D.D. Spoor, Au.D. discusses the role of OTCs as a hearing industry disruptor and provides practical advice and tips on how OTCs can be incorporated into any business model.

The hearing healthcare landscape changed significantly in response to the COVID 19 pandemic and is continuing to change due to the recent implementations of new OTC regulations. In this course you will be presented with trends to gain insight into changing consumer values, ways in which the hearing industry and manufacturers have adapted, and how you can practically apply information from these emerging trends to your clinical practice.

Moderated by Dr. Catherine Palmer, this course brings together several experts from leading companies in hearing care as part of the 2023 AudiologyOnline Industry Innovations Summit. The theme is Supporting Individualized Patient Care. A wide arrange of products and services are discussed along with their supporting evidence. Insight into trends and changes in the hearing care market is also provided in this lively roundtable forum that includes a distinguished panel of presenters from Audioscan, CaptionCall, CareCredit, Cochlear, Phonak, ReSound, Signia, and Starkey.