Accreditations and Approvals

  • Approved by Oregon Health Authority - OHA

  • Approved by CRCC for 2hr Cultural Competence

  • Approved by the California Nursing Board, Provider CEP#18080 for 2 contact hours

What Others Are Saying

Insightful and practical

Elizabeth L.

I recommend this course to any healthcare provider or to anyone who knows a person who is hard of hearing. The course provides insight and practical advice to improve communication in a respectful manner. Well done.

Gave me insight

Jeri T

I appreciate learning how to approach communication with patients who are hard of hearing but also learning how I can change my practice to make care accessible to them.

Please note: If you have purchased the 6HR Providing Culturally Competent Health Care for Those Aging with Dual Sensory Impairment course please email Deb for a coupon at [email protected] to gain access to the course for no additional cost as most of the content is already included.

Course curriculum

    1. Pretest

    2. Introductions & Agenda - How this course works.

      FREE PREVIEW

    3. Course Objectives

      FREE PREVIEW

    4. FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

      FREE PREVIEW

    1. Chapter 1 Video, the Who What and Why

    2. Chapter 1 Quiz - Check your understanding

    1. Chapter 2 Video, Identifying, defining and Quantifying hearing loss

    2. Chapter 2 Quiz - Check your Understanding

    1. Chapter 3 Video Can we do anything about it? Yes!

    2. Chapter 3 Quiz - Check your understanding

    1. Chapter 4 Video Hearing Aid Technology

    2. Chapter 4 Quiz - Test Your Understanding

    1. Required - Certify Video Completion

    2. Post - Final Test - Required

About this course

  • $69.00
  • 17 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content

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What you can expect &

Who it is for

  • Maintain connection and sense of caring

  • Gain practical strategies to be more culturally competent

  • Pre-approved CE for social workers, psychologist, nurses, therapists, and more.

  • Approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider CEP #18180 for 2 Contact Hours

Key Things You Will Learn:

Hearing Aids Are Complicated: Need Careful Settings To Work

  • Don't Yell: It makes comprehension worse

    Low Tech Strategies such as moving closer, communication cards, writing, changing the words to have fewer S, C, T, P in them, using alpha terms to spell, such as alpha for a, poppa for p, or tango for t, will help make communication better. It will also convey your willingness and caring to make sure your charge doesn't feel isolated or ignored. Or even worse, a frustration.

  • New Technology Has Benefits & Risks

    Hearing aids now provide many options besides just making sounds louder. They connect directly to Phones, computers, and to mini mics to provide less distortion of those soft consonants. Some people can get by with an OTC hearing aid, *not a personal amplifier) without the need of prescription or high cost. People who also have vision loss need to be aware that, in order to make speech clearer, the hearing aid will block environmental sounds like a tire crunch on pavement, a door click, even horns, etc., which means outdoor dangerous travel or being unaware of the movement of people/pets in the house. This can be handled with a program specifically set up for including environmental sounds, though still capping the super loud sounds for comfort.

  • Hearing Aids now have AI!

    Many hearing aids can provide step counter, fall notification, lack of use, and much more. Most of these can be turn off and on, in the associated apps. Different brands have more or less features, and ability to "automatically" resent the settings. The most important thing is to go back, to where you purchased, and work on the aids until they are very helpful.