The Hearing Aid Malfunction Detection Unit is a miniature, add-on device which performs a check of hearing aid operation about every half hour, and which indicates malfunction by means of a highly visible, electrically tripped indicator. (Author/SBH)

A remotely activated tactual communication aid is described, and results obtained from tests with the aid on five normal hearing young adults and five profoundly hearing impaired children (8 to 14 years old) are reported. (SBH)

Investigated in a series of experiments with 40 adults (20- to 70-years-old) having bilateral sensorineural hearing impairments was the test-retest reliability of the comfort level method for setting the acoustic gain of hearing aids, and the relationship between the comfort settings utilized in more realistic daily listening situations.…

Five commercially available hearing aids were assessed in two settings: using hearing aid test equipment available in most audiology clinics, with the hearing aid on microphone setting; and in a public school classroom, with the hearing aid on telecoil setting and operating with an FM classroom amplification system and a personally sized…

Eight profoundly hearing-impaired children, aged 5-11, received tactual word recognition training with tactual speech perception aids. Following training, subjects were tested on trained words and new words. Performance was significantly better on both sets of words when words were presented with a combined condition of tactual aid and aided…