Aural Rehabilitation And Counseling Adults CEU Courses

Communicating the benefits of advanced technology and making a strong recommendation is an important step in the counseling process. Information shared as a result equips the patient to take the next step in their hearing healthcare. This course will share suggestions for consumer-friendly language to support the professional in recommending Oticon More as the standard of care for their hearing solution.

Evidence shows that person-centered care (PCC) not only improves outcomes, it can also yield efficiency savings through more personalized treatment plans and by helping people to better manage their own conditions.
This webinar outlines the fundamental principles of PCC and presents some of the key benefits. It introduces attendees to Inspired by Ida – a program established to help hearing care professionals implement PCC in their everyday practice, and includes concrete examples, shared by existing Inspired by Ida members, Carol L. Clifford from Albuquerque Hearing & Balance, Anne Rankin Cannon from Hearing Doctors of Georgia, and Kali Markle from the Utah State University Hearing and Balance Clinic.

Audiologists have an opportunity to prevent or mitigate hearing loss in children and adults. This webinar (Part 2) focuses on the importance of including information about comorbid conditions in the audiologic assessment and management.

Persons with hearing loss often struggle with emotional challenges directly related to these hearing difficulties. Too often, these challenges are going unnoticed by the hearing care professional. This podcast will review recent research findings related to the emotional challenges associated with hearing loss in adults and provide a strategy for how clinicians can better manage and account for these emotional challenges patients face.

Current hearing aids have the technology and programming capabilities that allow us to obtain optimized audibility. This course provides a discussion of various tools that can be used to determine audibility for hearing aid users.

Management of unilateral hearing loss continues to challenge hearing professionals and the individuals it impacts. For these patients, Starkey’s Thrive platform offers contralateral routing of signal (CROS) and bilateral CROS (BiCROS) solutions that provide versatility and flexibility for many listening situations. With careful counseling, programming, and setup of options available in CROS systems, patients may easily enjoy the benefits that the technology offers. This session will discuss the rationale and candidacy for CROS and BiCROS and review the benefits and limitations. It will also describe Starkey’s Livio CROS system technology and features along with fitting protocols and programming considerations.

The co-morbidities of hearing loss include social isolation and loneliness, depression, increased risk of falls, as well as cognitive decline, and related dementias. In this presentation, we will describe how digital therapeutics are changing the face of healthcare, and then present an example of how digital therapeutics may be used to treat hearing loss and its downstream effects.

As most hearing care professionals know, the functional capabilities of individuals with hearing loss are defined by more than the audiogram. Many of these functional capabilities fall under the rubric, auditory wellness. This podcast will be a discussion between Brian Taylor of Signia and his guest, Barbara Weinstein, professor of audiology at City University of New York. They will outline the concept of auditory wellness, how it can be measured clinically and how properly fitted hearing aids have the potential to improve auditory wellness.

This course will provide an overview of an exciting new aural rehabilitation tool from Cochlear Americas. The tool provides a self-guided, personalized way for cochlear implant recipients to practice listening in real-world situations and get the support and knowledge they need to hear their best.

This course provides insights into the degree to which provider interaction influences patient readiness towards audiological services. Patient readiness is quantified through predisposed and post-appointment expectation profiles across 10 dimensions and among three professional settings. Overall, outcomes indicate that patient readiness is influenced by the behavior of the provider which, at present, appears to be a barrier to patient acceptance of treatment options.