CEU Courses Text/Transcript

Your first salary is the most impactful one to negotiate for a variety of reasons. This course will review the principles of negotiation, reasons to negotiate, and strategies to create the most successful outcome for all parties in a hearing healthcare setting.

The article discusses the importance of testing with users with different abilities. Further coverage of formative testing and universal design will be discussed.

This article describes the factors associated with communicating in acoustically challenging social situations. Part 3 focus on room acoustics, signal-to-noise ratios and their consequences on older adults with hearing loss.

This article provides insight in understanding the impact of COVID-19 on hearing impaired people. It describes changes in attitudes from 2021 to 2022.

Newborn hearing screening brochures are provided to families around the time of the hearing screening and contain information about the screening, the results, and potential next steps. This article describes the results of a study investigating the suitability of current newborn hearing screening brochures, in addition to a study investigating the likelihood that someone would understand a ‘refer’ screening result. These studies reveal that many current newborn hearing screening brochures could be revised to make the information more accessible to families and that the use of the word ‘refer’ to describe a hearing screening result should be avoided because it is potentially confusing to most people.

This article covers the ins and outs of what we now know about OTC hearing aid products. Including an overview of the technology, gain and output limitations, and whether they are self-fitting or not? Further discussion if FDA 510(k) is required? Where will they be sold? Return for credit allowed? How do they relate to state dispensing laws? And much more.

This article describes the factors associated with communicating in acoustically challenging social situations. Part 2 focus on individual factors such as peripheral hearing loss and SNR loss, how to account for individual differences in the clinic and their effects on communication in noisy places.

This article describes bone conduction hearing devices (BCHD), who are candidates, and how to fit and verify them using current clinical tools for both adults and children. Differences between percutaneous and transcutaneous BCHDs and the impacts on our clinical procedures are explained. Ongoing research to inform future clinical directions is also provided.

This article describes the factors associated with communicating in acoustically challenging social situations. Part 1 of this series focuses on room acoustics, signal-to-noise ratios, and their consequences on older adults with hearing loss.

How do you know if you are working hard enough, or too hard? Is your clinic’s workload similar to others in your region? Productivity measures can help answer these questions. This article describes how a group of pediatric audiology clinic directors developed a way to calculate productivity in their programs and the challenges they faced along the way.