SINCE April 1943 the Army Service Forces have been engaged in rehabilitation of soldiers with aural handicaps. At present this rehabilitation is being carried on at the following three centers: Deshon General Hospital, Borden General Hospital and Hoff General Hospital. Each center has been in operation for well over a year. Each has a program combining lip-reading instruction, fitting of hearing aids, auricular (or acoustic) training, speech correction and psychologic guidance.
It has been the responsibility of the three centers to develop and improve their procedures with the view of giving each patient maximum aural rehabilitation. Since the task has called for pioneering, each center has evolved procedures somewhat different from those of the other centers. Furthermore, each center is currently engaged in extending and refining its services.
The present paper is a report on the procedures employed in the selection of hearing aids at Deshon General Hospital. The present