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DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE AND SURGERYVETERANS ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON, D . C .

EDITORIAL BOARD

EUGENE F . MURPHY, Ph. D., Chairman

EARL A. LEWIS, Editor

THOMAS J . RADLEY, M .D.

WILLIAM M. BERNSTOCK

ANTHONY STAROS

HOWARD FREIPERGER

EDWARD PEIZER, Ph . D.

Managing Editor: Rhoda Beiser

Technical Editor: Tamara T . Sowell

Assistant Managing Editor : Stanley Daly, Jr.

Circulation Manager : Selma Denkenson

Medical Consultant: Gustav Rubin, M .D.

Technical Consultants: Vern L . Houston ; William J . McGuiness; Leon Bennett

Editorial Consultant : Wilfred G . Holsberg

Illustrators: John Beagles ; Phillip S . Carson

Photographers: William J . Romahn, Jr. ; Berdsell Franklin, Theodore Zier

Researcher : Thomas R . Langan

The Bulletin of Prosthetics Research is a publication of the Research Center for Prosthetics,Department of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans Administration . The opinions expressedby contributors are their own and are not necessarily those of the Veterans Administra-tion . Address correspondence to Editor, Bulletin of Prosthetics Research, Research Center forProsthetics, Veterans Administration, 252 Seventh Ave ., New York, New York 10001.

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CONTENTS

ArticlesPage

Editorial— " . . . .And Sensory Aids II"—H . Freiberger . . 1

Development of Test Procedures for Evaluation of BinauralHearing Aids—A Final Report—R . T . Carhart and L. L.Young 9

Workshop on Low Vision Mobility—L .E . Apple and B .B . Blasch 46

Research and Evaluation of Audible Output Print ReadingAids for the Blind—A Final Report—M . Carbery and M.

Butozu 139

Supplemental Sensory Feedback for the VA/NU MyoelectricHand—Background and Preliminary Designs—R . E. Prior,J. Lyman, P .A . Case, and C . M. Scott 170

Mobility Aids for the Severely Handicapped—A Status Re-port—C . M. Scott and R. E. Prior 192

VA Prosthetics Center Research

Report—A Staros and E . Peizer 214

Highlights of Other VA Research Programs

Prosthetics—Edited by E. F. Murphy 272Sensory Aids—Edited by H. Freiberger 344

Departments

Notes and News 365Recent Patents 375Publications of Interest 377Calendar of Events 384