Thank you all for your thoughtful and considered comments. We will start looking around immediately and, if possible, take our child with us. You have provided us with some excellent guidance and this was the right place to ask.

Thank you so much. But I do think we need phones that go over and surround the ear. In-ear buds of any kind might be much too irritating for an autistic child.

We will also be playing music through them when we can, thanks for asking.

Hi, new, I am totally non-technical. Have 6-yr old son with autism. Flying is complete agony for him, due to engine noise that is overwhelming to him and air pressure changes. We desperately need noise-cancelling HPs that will really work for him and fit his head. He cannot go through another...