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Noise Cancelling Headphones - good idea or terrible idea?

NAS77440

Hi

My daughter has been recently diagnosed with autism - age 14. She is asking for noise-cancelling headphones as she's read these can be helpful.

I'm all for getting them for her - I can see why they would help - however I'm concerned about her walking around all day even more isolated from everyone around her than she currently is.

Which I know is the point as far as she is concerned - but perhaps this would increase rather than decrease her social struggles?

My first post here so appreciate any help you can offer - thank you in advance!

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  • I think they can be useful. We have quite a few students in school who use them - not in class, but in noisy places like the corridors and the canteen. I've tried the headphones, but I have quite a few cartilage piercings, and having the headphones pressing on them was painful. I've got some earbuds now, but I only tend to use them on the rare occasions I use trains, because some people really can't get the hang of the quiet coach...

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  • I think they can be useful. We have quite a few students in school who use them - not in class, but in noisy places like the corridors and the canteen. I've tried the headphones, but I have quite a few cartilage piercings, and having the headphones pressing on them was painful. I've got some earbuds now, but I only tend to use them on the rare occasions I use trains, because some people really can't get the hang of the quiet coach...

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