The Sound Alert™ headphone visibly signals to students and teachers when the headphone volume is louder than the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association recommended 85dB level.
When the volume that is played through the headphone exceeds 85 decibels, a bright red warning light on the earcup turns on, alerting both the teacher and student about an unsafe sound level requiring adjustment. Having an appropriate volume level pointed out will help teachers and students learn safe and lifelong listening practices, beginning in the classroom, learning center, or school library.
According to a March 2006 national poll commissioned by the American Speech-Language- Hearing Association, 40% of students reportedly set their music players' volume above 85 decibels, which is the level hearing experts recommend not be exceeded. If music can be heard coming from a student's headphone, the volume is too loud and the student is at risk of experiencing hearing loss.
Hearing loss can lead to many problems in school including: difficulty with academic achievement in language arts, vocabulary, arithmetic, and problem solving. Students with hearing loss score lower on achievement tests, and have greater needs for special education or extra support in the classroom.
This durable headphone is based on the rugged Califone monaural headphone, which is the educator's standard for listening centers, ELL and ELD and other language learning activities.
The Sound Alert headphone can be used as a normal headphone without charging the battery, but the warning LED feature will not operate. The headphone saves power by shutting off when no audio signal is present for 60 seconds and will power on automatically when there is an audio signal present.
Includes an AC adapter and charging lead (not shown).
“The CA-2 stereo headphones allow 6th-8th grade students to hear the program when they’re involved in Math and Language Arts activities.” Melinda Alvarez Main Office Shivela Middle School Murrieta, CA
A: No. The SoundAlert™ jackbox is a monaural jackbox to be used with monaural headphones while the SoundAlert headphone is a stereo headphone to be used with stereo multimedia players and computers.
A: No, the SoundAlert™ monaural jackbox and stereo headphones don’t have to be used together as they both have a feature that signals when the volume level exceeds 85dB. That feature will still work on the monaural jackbox if it is used with a regular monaural headphone and the feature on the SoundAlert stereo headphone will work when used with a stereo multimedia player or regular stereo jackbox.
A: Califone headphones are available in silver, blueberry or beige, depending upon what headphone you need. The 3060-series are available in all 3 colors. The 2924AVP, 2924AVPS and 3064AV headset come in both beige and blueberry. However, the color-themed Listening First™ headphones come in blue, red and yellow. The 3068AV is only available in black. The SA-740 and NC500TFC in silver.
A: Yes. The Sound Alert Headphone is a stereo headphone which comes with a 3.5mm plug which can be used with a PC, an MP3 player or a CD player. It also includes ¼” adapter for use with other equipment.
A: The Spirit 1776 is a stereo media player and monaural headphones such as the 2985PG, the 2924AVG or any others in the 2924AV series, excluding the stereo 2924AVPS, are not compatible because the sound will only come out of one earcup instead of coming out in stereo surround sound. Monaural headphones have a ¼” plug that will not fit into the 3.5mm headphone jack found on all stereo boomboxes. All Califone® stereo headphones have 3.5’’ stereo plugs. Monaural headphones are best used with cassette player/recorders. Read more about Stereo vs Mono.
A: The difference between a headphone and a headset is a headphone is used only for listening and a headset can be used for listening and capturing audio responses (used by many language/reading programs). Put another way, a headset is a headphone with a microphone attached to it.
A: The Sound Alert™ headphone does not have volume control however it features a red warning light that will turn on when the volume level has exceeded 85dB which is considered to be an unsafe sound level.
