Product review: Direct input leads

Direct input leads leads allow your child to listen directly to any music device with a headphone socket.

Available to buy from Connevans.
Ages: 5 to 25

Reviewed by Brenda and Aidan, parents to Aaron (10), Aideen (8) who has a moderate hearing loss and Jonah (4) who has a severe hearing loss.

"My children like to listen to their iPad and iPod but we don’t want them to turn the volume up really high, so we borrowed direct input leads from the National Deaf Children’s Society Technology Test Drive. The Helpline told us which shoes we needed to connect the leads to our children’s hearing aids and we borrowed those as well.

With the leads my children get a better listening experience as they can still keep their hearing aids in and are therefore not missing any frequencies. It makes them more attentive to whatever they are watching. At school they can plug the leads into the computer to help them with school work.

I think the leads are a fantastic product and they are so easy to carry with you. I’ve encouraged other parents at a National Deaf Children’s Society weekend on starting school to borrow the leads to see if they can help their children as well."