Aural Rehabilitation And Counseling Adults CEU Courses

This Grand Round Series from 2018 features clinicians from the University of Pittsburgh, Henry Ford Health System and the University of South Dakota presenting actual case studies on adult amplification with a range of audiological and medical diagnoses represented.

This course addresses unique challenges for those who find themselves working with the aging population. An overview of dementia and the connections to hearing loss and hearing health care interventions will be discussed. Also, age-related changes in both sensory function and cognitive abilities and social disengagement and withdrawal as a result of listening fatigue will be reviewed.

Changes in the healthcare landscape and other factors make this a good time for audiologists to consider expanding their clinical practice beyond recommending and fitting hearing aids. This article uses an engaging Q & A format to provide an overview of auditory brain training, with examples from the clEAR program.

This course features clinicians from the University of Pittsburgh presenting actual case studies on adult amplification with a range of audiological and medical diagnoses represented.

This 2-part course series addresses collaboration with psychology for counseling as part of audiological management of hearing loss. Psychological post-trauma reactions to audiology office visits are described. Carkhuff’s (2014) helping skills, Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Listen, Empathize, Agree, Partner (L.E.A.P.), which are counseling strategies used to manage obesity, smoking cessation, alcohol use, exercise regimen, drug addiction and medication compliance, are reviewed. The course provides a rationale and explanation for application of these tools and strategies for managing patient denial and ambivalence toward hearing aid use as well as compliance with audiological recommendations.

This course is the second in a 2-part series about collaboration with psychology for counseling as part of audiological management of hearing loss. Carkhuff’s (2014) helping skills, Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Listen, Empathize, Agree, Partner (L.E.A.P.) are counseling strategies employed in health care to manage obesity, smoking cessation, alcohol use, exercise regimen, drug addiction and medication compliance. These strategies will be described, with emphasis on their utilization for managing patient denial and ambivalence toward hearing aid use as well as compliance with recommendations.

This course is part of a 2-course series addressing collaboration with psychology for counseling as part of audiological management of hearing loss. This first course will address psychological post-trauma reactions to audiology office visits. Tools will be described to navigate these landmines without going beyond the bounds of professional practice.

A hallmark of age related hearing loss is difficulty understanding in noisy environments. The difficulty requires significant listening effort on the listener’s part which, when prolonged, is associated with fatigue. The fatigue in combination with the listening effort and cognitive load often leads people to withdraw from social situations. Social disengagement has many downstream negative outcomes which will be discussed in this course.

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 course will introduce members to age-related changes in both sensory function and cognitive abilities, with the goal of explaining the contribution of each to impaired speech perception in older adults. Current theories of speech perception as they apply to age-related changes in understanding spoken language will also be discussed.