Assistive Devices CEU Courses

This course is designed to introduce participants to the importance of binaural hearing. We will highlight the benefits and challenges that hearing healthcare professional may encounter when working with this population and discuss management and treatment strategies to ensure successful outcomes.

This course will define and demonstrate how Audioscan hearing instrument fitting and verification technology can be used to implement the most current recommended FM verification procedures, and how these procedures can be used for both the verification of FM and any remote microphone technology.

As Over-The-Counter (OTC) hearing aids are introduced in the US in the next year, hearing healthcare providers will need to understand how to use these products to provide greater access to hearing healthcare. This webinar will prepare hearing healthcare providers for the new world where OTCs are widely available.

CaptionCall service and technology is available to all persons with hearing loss and who have difficulty communicating on the telephone. This course will help the Hearing Healthcare Professional describe the functionality and new features of the CaptionCall Phone, the CaptionCall Mobile App, and the requirements for CaptionCall Services.

This 4-part webinar series is focused on wireless connectivity between the listener and the talker designed to improve communication. Guest editor, Dr. Linda Thibodeau along with a team of leading experts will present on select articles from a recent issue of the journal Seminars in Hearing (Issue 04 · Volume 41 · November 2020).

People with hearing loss are at a distinct disadvantage compared to people with normal hearing when communicating on the telephone. This course gives an informative view of the FCC-regulated Internet Protocol Captioning Telephone Service, eligibility requirements and the difference clear communication makes on an individual’s well-being.

Over the past decade, there has been a proliferation of hearing devices that connect to smartphone technologies via Bluetooth. This course will review current literature assessing the application and benefits of “connected” hearing technologies, as well as their potential to improve accessibility to hearing healthcare.

Remote learning for deaf and hard-of-hearing students during COVID resulted in both predictable and unpredictable challenges as well as some expected benefits. During this presentation, we will focus on communication access modifications in the use of remote microphone (RM) systems as well as other access accommodations.

This course provides an overview of several categories of smartphone applications that may be used to improve communication for users with auditory complaints. Several considerations for use and examples of real-world applications are provided.

The variety of options for wireless connectivity to hearing aids will be reviewed. Transmission protocols will be compared with an emphasis on need for creating a “network” of connections to meet the communication demands of the user.