CEU Courses Text/Transcript

This article covers the innovation occurring within today’s hearing aids and consumer hearables, and highlights the key differences between the two product sets. In addition, the role of consumer hearables in helping to combat the “7-10-year gap” and ways that the hearing health value proposition might be enhanced in the coming years is explored.

Why audiologists should include vestibular-balance neurodiagnostics in their practices, and considerations for getting starting such as selecting a test battery, establishing referral sources, training, and more.

This article provides insight in hearing aid wear time from a large manufacturer database. It explores the contribution of some known variables such as hearing loss severity, age, gender, and others to hearing aid wear time.

Hearing impairment in the extended high frequencies (EHFs) can occur in the presence of a normal audiogram. This 20Q reviews the current knowledge on EHF hearing impairment and the usefulness of EHF audiometry in the clinic.

This course reviews the foundations of HIPAA privacy, security, breach notification, and marketing requirements and guidelines as they relate to hearing healthcare. HIPAA requirements and considerations for telehealth are also covered. This introductory course is intended for new hire trainings as well as for annual review.

Children with hearing loss must have full-time access to speech and environmental sounds to optimize their listening and spoken language development. This 20Q summarizes the research that examines hearing technology wear time in children and its effect on outcomes. Highlights include research that examines the relationship between wear time and outcomes, and a review of factors that influence wear time. Additionally, numerous clinical tips are provided for optimizing hearing-technology wear time in children with hearing loss.

A study describing acoustic measurements of the new split processing implemented in Signia AX hearing aids, and a comparison of those measures to the effect of other common processing algorithms, including digital noise reduction and adaptive directionality.

This course reviews recent literature on occupational stress in audiology, discusses the need for additional research in this area, and describes ways in which audiologists may want to approach stress reduction within the profession.

Healthcare professionals serve an important role for older adults amidst COVID-19 as we address activities of daily living (ADL), safety, quality of life, mental health, and other areas directly impacted by this virus. This text course will discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on how healthcare providers approach treatment with older adults.

How hearing loss is associated with healthcare-seeking behaviors and unmet health care needs. A new hearing loss public awareness campaign and public health training initiatives that are open to audiologists from the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University are also reviewed.