Effectiveness of Earmuffs and Noise-cancelling Headphones for Coping with Hyper-reactivity to Auditory Stimuli in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Preliminary Study

Effectiveness of Earmuffs and Noise-cancelling Headphones for Coping with Hyper-reactivity to Auditory Stimuli in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Preliminary Study

Objective/Background: The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the effectiveness of standard earmuffs and noise-cancelling (NC) headphones in controlling behavioural problems related to hyper-reactivity to auditory stimuli in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Methods: Twenty-one ch...

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Main Authors: Nobuhiko Ikuta, Ryoichiro Iwanaga, Akiko Tokunaga, Hideyuki Nakane, Koji Tanaka, Goro Tanaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-12-01
Series:Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy
Subjects:
auditory hyper-reactivity
autism spectrum disorder
earmuff
noise-cancelling headphone
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1569186116300043

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