Abstract
IN RECENT years it has been questioned whether a hospital clinic should engage in hearing aid selection. Carhart<sup>1</sup>(1950) states that the clinic probably should not seek to find the "best hearing aid fitting" but that rather it should assess the person's need for amplification and his difficulties with wearable instruments. The method suggested by Carhart<sup>2</sup>in 1946 has been the basic means for selection of hearing aids since World War II. By this method an audiologist, after reviewing the patient's hearing test results, selects two or three aids that, based on his experience, will most likely meet the needs of that particular patient. He then determines which is the most suitable aid after testing for sensitivity (gain), for discrimination in quiet and in noise, and for tolerance. The usual method of hearing aid selection necessitates the scheduling of two hours of the audiologist's time. In 1946 Davis
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