Hearing And Hearing Loss CEU Courses

Sound enhancement is a cornerstone of the clinical management of chronic bothersome subjective tinnitus. This course reviews the subtle but effective adjustments to hearing aid programming when hearing aids are fitted for the purpose of managing tinnitus symptoms, including masking sounds and soft-sound enhancement.

In anticipation of the 2024 revision of ANSI S3.22, “Specification of Hearing Aid Characteristics,” this presentation will review the significant updates in the latest version of this seminal standard. The primary focus will be a pragmatic approach to conducting the ‘ANSI Test’ effectively and efficiently for each leading hearing aid manufacturer.

An overview of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)/concussion and its pathophysiology, with particular emphasis on diagnostic and rehabilitation tools utilized by SLPs and audiologists, is provided in this course. Impacts of mTBI on hearing, cognition, vision and the vestibular system, assessments performed by the two disciplines post-concussion, and treatments for cognition (including auditory processing disorder) are described.

Cognition as it relates to hearing loss has been an important topic of discussion for the last decade. In this course, hearing care providers will learn about the foundations of cognition and hearing loss, and how to proactively address hearing loss and promote healthy living as a way to possibly mitigate cognitive decline and positively impact the overall well-being of their clients.

Part 1 discussed how a decline in some elements of cognition and auditory processing alters speech perception during normal aging. This course considers how hearing aids may help or hinder speech perception for older adults. The author discusses how different hearing aid settings can affect the speech signal and consider practical ways we can use this in the clinic to offer the optimum fitting for an individual, in particular how we should set up hearing aid compression.

As Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Coordinators, we witness many families struggling to obtain accurate information on supporting their Deaf child’s language development. Language development is not about what the Deaf child can or cannot hear. This course discusses how to help families and parents navigate and gain access to information for their Deaf children.

This course reviews conductive hearing loss amplification needs and management options. We explore the offerings of the Cochlear Osia 2 device and compare to other bone anchored hearing devices.

Many aspects of cognition and auditory processing decline with normal aging, and this makes it difficult to hear in challenging situations, even without the additional problems caused by peripheral hearing loss. There is a huge amount of literature about hearing and aging. This course summarizes relevant findings and discusses the processes of normal aging that particularly affect speech perception.

This course reviews patterns of noise-induced cell death, changes in sound evoked hair cell and neuron response, and functional deficits, including both threshold shift and deficits “beyond the audiogram.” As investigational inner ear medicines enter clinical testing for possible prevention of cochlear injury or cochlear regeneration indications, reliable diagnostic metrics for specific cell and nerve injuries are becoming increasingly important.

This course introduces the challenges that patients with single-sided deafness face and details diagnostic work-up, treatment options, and long-term outcomes after treatment with cochlear implants. Furthermore, current research on neural activation and its effect on the treatment of subjects with single-sided deafness is discussed.