Hearing And Hearing Loss CEU Courses

This course discusses important aspects of what to expect from your PCP when dealing with State Agencies and seeking services for a child with CMV.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Professor Barbara Weinstein and Brian Taylor discuss some of the latest research on hearing loss and dementia and how these findings can be applied to a clinic’s communication/marketing strategy. In this podcast, they also address the topic of dementia screening in hearing aid dispensing clinics and the concept of auditory wellness.

cCMV is the most common cause of non-genetic, childhood-onset sensorineural hearing loss, but audiologists are often unaware of it and not trained to provide care to patients who are cCMV positive. This presentation will increase audiologists’ awareness of cCMV and provide practical information on providing care to patients with cCMV.

This course reviews the pathophysiology and treatment of fetal cytomegalovirus.

Audiologists perform and review audiograms for many types of employers. This requires a fundamental understanding of the differences between regulatory agencies and best practices in the context of hearing threshold shifts, age corrections and baseline revisions. This course will advance your knowledge in occupational audiology and link you to many resources.

This course provides an overview of Congenital CMV awareness and advocacy efforts occurring nationwide. The Utah CMV public education and testing program, the first legislatively mandated CMV public health initiative, will also be discussed in detail.

Hearing loss in cCMV has unique features, presentation, and long-term outcomes. This presentation highlights these unique features, and outlines the current evidence that guides identification and treatment of patients with this condition.

This course is an overview of congenital CMV and will cover basic information about transmission, prevention, prevalence, awareness, and advocacy.

This course presents research findings of individuals treated for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss and analyzes improvement seen within the pure tone average as well as word recognition scores, an overlooked parameter reported on in literature. The research specifically follows clinical guidelines set by the American Academy of Otolaryngology and whether improvement can be seen beyond the recommended treatment onset.

This course describes the prevalence of tinnitus in teenagers from all causes, and discusses the primary complaints associated with bothersome tinnitus. Specific interventions the audiologist can provide are described in detail.