20Q With Gus Mueller CEU Courses

This course explains the Speech Intelligibility Index (SII) and how hearing care professionals can integrate it into their hearing aid fittings. It is written in an engaging Q & A format.

An overview of longstanding and new research regarding the challenges of children with unilateral hearing loss, and a discussion of current initiatives to support professionals in effective, evidence-based, audiological management. This article is written in an engaging, Q & A format.

This article discusses autoREMfit hearing aid fitting, how it compares to best practices in hearing aid verification, and provides considerations and recommendations for professionals using autoREMfit to help optimize accuracy.

This course discusses how audiologists can successfully adapt to the changing market including the advent of over the counter hearing aids by following evidence-based practice, practicing the full scope of practice, and using a patient-centric pricing and delivery model.

This course reviews why and how a national registry on hearing aid fittings is implemented in Sweden, and how the data is used for quality assurance and improvement. This course is written in an engaging Q & A style.

Counseling is most effective when it includes both content-giving and allows for patient feelings that arise from the audiology diagnosis and treatment process. This article is written in a Q & A style and discusses relevant counseling principles and tools from psychology that may help audiologists facilitate positive patient outcomes.

This article reviews the definition and purpose of outcome measures in audiology. In an engaging Q & A format, the author discusses the development and clinical use of a new outcome measure assessing hearing aid benefit, and explains the value it has brought to his practice.

This text is an engaging Q & A discussion of teleaudiology applications and outcomes, with examples from the Veterans Administration.

This course covers basic concepts regarding the selection of hearing aid gain and output, verification, and potential negative consequences when verification is not performed. It also reviews recent changes in the US hearing aid market and makes the case as to why hearing aid verification is more important than ever. This text-based course is written in an engaging Q & A format.

A Q & A discussion that reviews current knowledge of hyperacusis. Topics covered include definition, symptoms, prevalence, and suspected pathophysiology, as well as clinical assessment and treatment, based on the latest research in this area.