I am the mother of a first grade students whose school uses a sound enhancement system. I also have a severe hearing loss in my left ear. While this hearing loss is not realized during a one-on-one conversation in a quiet room it does become debilitating when trying to listen to one voice among many background noises. I recently visited my son's classroom during American Education Week and was pleasantly surprised at how well the sound enhancement system worked. I was in the back of the classroom and I could hear the teacher with ease! When I was a student I remember having to either ask the teacher to repeat what was said or check things in my textbook to make sure I heard something correctly. You'd be amazed at how easy it is to mistake one word for another when a couple of your classmates are whispering, the overhead projector is humming and the furnace is running! This system is great for students with hearing loss or neurological processing disorders but it is also a great tool when teaching the child who hears as well as his other peers. At home I often feel I am "competing" for my child's attention when trying to give instructions. This system makes sure the teacher has the child's attention and, I believe, helps their minds from wandering away from the lesson and on to something else. The sound enhancement system is a great asset to my son's education and I am grateful for the well spent money it took to install it.