Headphones for The Listening Program

[Guest guest]

We are just about to start TLP with DS and need to buy some headphones.

Our therapist has recommended the Bone Conduction ones but has told us we could

also buy the much cheaper Senheisser. My question is do the bone conduction

really make much of a difference? We are being quoted £750. Any advice would be

greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Sue

[Guest guest]

I don't think the brand matters as long as the frequency coverage is wide

enough. I think if you google it there whould be sites with info on what

exact freqencies you need to be picked up by headphones, as remember there

were some costing about£70 that were good enough. I had expensive cordless

Senheisser at home at the time but those ones could not cover the range

needed so had to buy another pair... I don't think the brand matters much.

Natasa x

> We are just about to start TLP with DS and need to buy some headphones.

> Our therapist has recommended the Bone Conduction ones but has told us we

> could also buy the much cheaper Senheisser. My question is do the bone

> conduction really make much of a difference? We are being quoted £750. Any

> advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Sue

>

>

[Guest guest]

I just found this list on the web:

http://www.thelisteningprogram.com/PDF/Listener_Rescources/TLP_Approved_Headphon\

es.PDF

Margaret

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> I don't think the brand matters as long as the frequency coverage is wide

> enough. I think if you google it there whould be sites with info on what

> exact freqencies you need to be picked up by headphones, as remember there

> were some costing about£70 that were good enough. I had expensive cordless

> Senheisser at home at the time but those ones could not cover the range

> needed so had to buy another pair... I don't think the brand matters much.

>

> Natasa x

>

>

>

> > We are just about to start TLP with DS and need to buy some headphones.

> > Our therapist has recommended the Bone Conduction ones but has told us we

> > could also buy the much cheaper Senheisser. My question is do the bone

> > conduction really make much of a difference? We are being quoted £750. Any

> > advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Sue

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

I could not afford them, we use regular which are not cheap either but have worked well here

Mx

We are just about to start TLP with DS and need to buy some headphones.Our therapist has recommended the Bone Conduction ones but has told us we could also buy the much cheaper Senheisser. My question is do the bone conduction really make much of a difference? We are being quoted £750. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Sue

[Guest guest]

You might want to consider whether the bone conduction would provide too much input for your particular child and whether they would be tolerable as the vibrating sensation isn't particularly pleasant. The sennheiser HD 515 ones that we bought are more uncomfortable than the bone conduction headphones. I was glad when we did the sensory CDs that we had already done the disc cycle once with the ordinary sennheiser ones as the going got quite rough for 3 weeks or so with lots of aggression. When we borrowed the bone conduction ones the reaction got progressively less with each cycle (we have now done 3 cycles). Our son is pretty sensitive to listening therapies. I think in hindsight it would have been better to have a longer break between cycles. Depending on the age and adaptability of your child it might be worth planning some getting used to wearing the

headphones time before beginning the cycle. The headphones do have to be good ones even if they aren't bone conduction maybe ask the provider what has just been dropped in terms of spec recommendation as TLP upgrade the spec fairly frequently - you could then look for the just dropped headphones on eg Amazon - anyway thats what we did after our son broke the first pair. Hope you get good results from TLP. Subject: Headphones for The Listening ProgramTo: Autism-Biomedical-Europe Date: Tuesday, 28 February, 2012, 9:54

We are just about to start TLP with DS and need to buy some headphones.

Our therapist has recommended the Bone Conduction ones but has told us we could also buy the much cheaper Senheisser. My question is do the bone conduction really make much of a difference? We are being quoted £750. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Sue