Califone 2985PG User Manual

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Califone 2985PG User Manual

Sound AlertTM

Monaural Headphone

Model 2985PG

The Sound AlertTM headphone

 

visibly signals to students and

 

teachers when the headphone

 

volume is louder than the

 

American Speech-Language-

 

Hearing Associationrecommended

 

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 pointedout 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 deci

 

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.

Also available is the 10-position Sound AlertTM monaural jackbox.

With the sound level monitored from this jackbox, the volume

from up to ten attached headphones (not needing to be the

2985PG) can be adjusted to the safe 85 decibel level.

10-position Sound AlertTM Jackbox, model 1285G

Califone® International Inc. 800-722-0500 califone.com

2985PG, May 2008

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