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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