WILLIAMS SOUND - HEARING ASSISTANCE FOR EDUCATION

Do any of your students struggle to hear as a result of noisy surroundings, distractions, or distance from the sound source? Do any of your students in your classroom suffer from a hearing disability? With technologies such as the Personal FM Listening System from Williams Sound, everyone in the classroom can hear, without distraction, at a volume that accommodates their hearing needs while helping them perform. In fact, studies show that students that hear better in the classroom, perform better in the classroom. Empowering students with the right technology can be the difference of learning and not learning.

Here´s how it works: The teacher wears a body-pack style transmitter equipped with a lapel microphone. The student that requires hearing assistance wears a body-pack style receiver and picks up the message directly from the teacher into their headphones by way of a FM signal. Background noise and other environmental distractions are greatly reduced, and the student can adjust the volume of their receiver to a listening level that is comfortable for them.

The PFM 350 model is particularly unique, where the receiver has its own external microphone. By turning on the external microphone, the receiver acts like a personal amplifier; it will pick up the closest immediate sound source. The student can then turn their attention to a nearby classmate who is speaking, just by turning up the volume on their microphone.

For larger classrooms or lecture halls exceeding 500 feet, teachers should consider using a Personal PA™ Listening System from Williams Sound. Students use body-pack style receivers equipped with headphones (or earphones) to hear the teacher speak. The teacher speaks into a microphone which is connected to a T35 FM transmitter base station. The transmitter base station broadcasts the teacher’s message by way of FM signal throughout the classroom or lecture hall up to 1000 feet. The result is, any student in the room can hear the teacher clearly and easily, and can adjust the volume to meet their hearing assistance needs. Because the student’s receivers are wireless, they are free to move about in the room, and they won´t miss any of the teacher´s important messages.