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same time, to give the appropriate guidance to their parents. Children at ordinary schools, recommended
for auditory training by the otologist, are visited by the peripatetic teacher after
consultation with Mr, Brown and the head teachers of the schools concerned. As yet the
peripatetic teacher has no room of her own at the unit where she can train children and interview
parents but, ultimately, it is hoped that some such provision can be made.
During the year a conference of the audiometricians in the employ of the Local Education
Authority was held, under the chairmanship of Dr. Fisch. The aim of this conference, at which
a number of school medical officers attended, was to consider methods of training and practice
to ensure a uniform standard of audiometry.
Perhaps the least satisfactory part of the Audiology service is in the making of good inserts
for hearing aids and in the provision of these instruments without undue delay. At the present
time children, having been recommended for a hearing aid at the Audiology Unit, then have to
travel to a hospital in the Central London area for the inserts to be fitted, and there may be three
to four months delay between the time the need for a hearing aid is confirmed and when it is in
use by the child As one looks to the future it becomes increasingly apparent that a fullyfunctioning
audiology unit must have provisions for taking impressions of the inserts and for
issuing hearing aids at the unit itself.