Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi Everyone!
I am a third year occupational therapy student and I am currently in the process of developing a product for autistic children as part of a module assignment.
The product is a pair of noise cancelling headphones but comes with a microphone which can be paired with the headphones. The aim is for children to wear them during school hours and to still hear the teacher talking through the microphone, which they would be wearing. Additionally, I was looking into these being used outside of school. Such as when out shopping, the parent/carer could wear the microphone so the child could hear the parent/carer speaking through the headphones, but not external noises which could be overwhelming.
I was just looking for any feedback about this idea, such as:
I am happy to receive any feedback you could provide as you are all experts in this field!
Thank you so much in advance :)
P.S. here is an image of the design I currently have in mind
Why aim the product just at children? There are plenty of adults who would welcome affordable noise-cancelling headphones primarily designed to cancel noise.
Have you looked at the topics on the right listed under Related? They would be worth a read. Also take a look at these topics (some/all of which may already be listed under Related):https://community.autism.org.uk/f/health-and-wellbeing/11756/active-noise-cancelling-earplugshttps://community.autism.org.uk/f/adults-on-the-autistic-spectrum/13280/in-ear-headphones-for-noise-cancellinghttps://community.autism.org.uk/f/health-and-wellbeing/6914/noise-cancelling-headphones/78718
I long to wear a comfortable, affordable pair of headphones which have truly top class noise cancelling. I do have a pair of Bose headphones but, given I cannot afford to replace them, I am reluctant to wear them when, for example, out in the garden.
Different levels of noise cancelling may be useful.
The product is aimed at children for ease of the assignment really - it's more simple to target to a specific audience, rather than a wide spectrum as we've got to do a business case. I do recognise that adults want noise cancelling headphones - if this product ever became real I would definitely widen my market!
Thank you for those links and advice - it will be really helpful!! :)