 Methods: For the field testing up to 16 clinical audiologists and 10 new hearing aid user Veterans will be recruited to participate in focus groups during which they will view and then be asked questions about the content of the HAIG. Information learned during these focus groups will then be incorporated into the HAIG, at which time they will be ready for use in the study. For the comparative effectiveness study, up to 468 hearing-impaired Veterans who are about to become first-time hearing-aid users will be enrolled to participate in this investigation. These individuals will be recruited from the VA Portland Health Care Systems Audiology and Speech Pathology Service ASPS. Prior to receiving their hearing aids, subjects will be enrolled in the study at the National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research NCRAR, and will conduct health literacy, manual dexterity and hepatic sensitivity, visual acuity, and learning and memory assessments. They will then attend their hearing aid fitting in the ASPS and will receive standard-of-care hearing-aid orientation. At the end of that appointment, they will receive one of the four study interventions. Subjects will return to the NCRAR 4-6 weeks after the hearing-aid-fitting appointment to complete the following outcome measures: a knowledge and practical test regarding hearing-aid use and care, a measure of self-efficacy, and a measure of hearing-aid outcomes. They also will be interviewed so that the investigators can learn their opinions about the intervention. A subset of the initial 50 participants enrolled into each study arm will attend a second follow-up appointment 6 months after the fitting appointment so the investigators can examine longer-term impacts of the hearing aid orientation interventions. 