1968 Volume 11 Issue 1 Pages 18-22
As a result of inquiries as to the impressions about the experience of the hearing aid to the deaf who visited the better hering clinic of Kobayashi Institute of Physical Research, it has been concluded that the deaf can not carry conversation as satisfactory as they wish even with a hearing aid.
As to the desires of the deaf, the mild deafness “want to be able to carry conversation as well as normal persons and the heavy deafness” want to be able to hear somehow.
As to the length of time spent with the hearing aid, there was no relation observed between that and severity of deafness but necessity of conversation.
The deaf always want better hearing aid to be able to carry conversation smoothly. Although, at present, such an ideal hearing aid as they want has not been produced yet. So that there is no way but auditory training accompanied with a hearing aid for the deaf.
The auditory training has been given to the acquired deaf in our institute for more than three years. The main subject of the auditory training here was the lip-reading method with a hearing aid, but this method has not been very effective. A reason was that the appointment of a good auditory trainer had been not been available and the other reason was that the deaf soon got tired of training because of its' simplicity. A new method of auditory training using Video-corder has been devised in our institute recently.
A Video-corder is an apparatus which can reproduce recorded sounds and pictures simultaneously. So that the deaf can train lip-reading themselves by using this apparatus whenever they want. The effect of this new method is not known yet as this has been just started, but a prospect of a good result can be expected.
It is desired that this new method accompanid with lip-reading method would be introduced and employed at any district of the country.
