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MAJOR JAMES P. ALBRITE, (MC); ARAM GLORIG, M.D.

AMA Arch Otolaryngol. 1955;61(3):328-330.

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Twenty-one selected patients were tested at the Audiology and Speech Correction Center, Walter Reed Army Hospital, with a modified soft plastic ear insert which is fitted into the hearing-aid receiver, and the findings were compared with the results of tests done with a standard soft insert.¹ Although there appeared to be no significant difference in speech reception and speech discrimination while the patient was using one or the other insert, the modified insert made manifest the advantages of added comfort to the patient, less fabrication time, and lower cost. Because of these positive results, the improved insert, which is made with an open channel, now replaces its predecessor, the standard soft insert, and is issued at Walter Reed Army Hospital to each patient requiring a hearing aid. Figures 1, 2, and 3 show the three stages of ear inserts, which have been used successively at Walter Reed Army Hospital . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
U. S. Army; Los Angeles

Footnotes
Director, Audiology and Speech Correction Center, Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington 12, D. C. (Major Albrite). Director of Research, Subcommittee on Noise in Industry, Committee on Conservation of Hearing, American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology (Dr. Glorig).

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