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Sensitive hearing problem

Sandy A
over 7 years ago

My ASD daughter gets very disturbed when people are talking downstairs, and she is in her bedroom upstairs. She finds the (random) noise intolerable, even if we try to talk quietly. It becomes a question of upsetting her, versus being silent all the time!

Has anyone any suggestions on what we could do? Noise cancelling headphones have been tried, but I think we got the wrong model.

Thanks for any replies.

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  • over 7 years ago

    Thanks for the reply.

    She is comfortable with background noise. In fact she says that the problem is particularly acute when she's trying to listen to music or concentrate on something else, when the noise breaks through.

    With headphones/earplugs, the problem is that she likes to be able to hear if something is going on- she needs to not cut herself off from the world aurally.

    She dislikes the “muffled sound” specifically.

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  • over 7 years ago

    Thanks for the reply.

    She is comfortable with background noise. In fact she says that the problem is particularly acute when she's trying to listen to music or concentrate on something else, when the noise breaks through.

    With headphones/earplugs, the problem is that she likes to be able to hear if something is going on- she needs to not cut herself off from the world aurally.

    She dislikes the “muffled sound” specifically.

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