Organized by
The Acoustical Society of America
The City University of New York
and
The National Council of Acoustical Consultants
A workshop for eliminating classroom noise and reverberation as barriers to effective learning and easy verbal communication between students and teachers.
To bring together those engaged in the planning, development or use of
educational facilities, including:
Partial List of Sponsors:
American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, U.S.
Architectural & Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (the Access
Board), Council of Educational Facilities Planners International, Self-
Help for the Hard-of- Hearing, League for the Hard-of-Hearing, Lexington
Hearing and Speech Center.
For Further Information call:
(516) 576-2360
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS WORKSHOP?
Research has confirmed teacher and parent experience that poor
classroom acoustics (high noise levels or reverberation):
This workshop is designed to provide practical planning strategies and methods to avoid or correct poor acoustics in existing and planned educational facilities.
WHAT WILL PARTICIPANTS DISCUSS?
How to identify, diagnose and solve acoustical problems in classrooms
and other listening and learning spaces.
How to identify students at high risk, such as those with mild
hearing loss, with limited English proficiency, or with ADD (Attention
Deficit Disorder).
Demographics of the classroom acoustics problem: the number, type,
and ages of students at risk.
Acoustical parameters of speech intelligibility emphasizing
background noise levels and reverberation time.
Risks to normally abled students.
Recommended architectural acoustic criteria for intelligible speech.
Practical solutions to implementation problems, including
administrative, architectural, engineering, financial, and political
aspects.
Access guidelines and possible standards.
How acousticians, architects and audiologists can work effectively
with administrators, teachers and parents to create acoustically excellent
learning spaces.
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY- 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
| Introduction | Erdreich |
| Welcome | CUNY Grad School President Frances Degan Horowitz |
| Keynote speaker | Mark Ross |
| Overview of sessions | Harris |
| Language acquisition in children | Schwartz |
| Moderated discussion | |
| Principles of speech intelligibility | |
| Physical to perceptual w/demos | Erdreich |
| Moderated discussion | |
| Hearing in children and effects on learning | Gravel |
| Moderated discussion and overview of next day sessions |
SATURDAY 8:30 a.m. TO 5:00 p.m.
| Communication by hearing impaired listeners | Boothroyd |
| Role of audiologists and speech pathologists | Gladstone |
| Moderated discussion | |
| Goals and criteria for acoustical planning | Herbert |
| Moderated discussion | |
| ADA requirements and update | Thibault |
| The school design process | Anstrand |
| Discussion | |
| Case Study 1 | Brooks |
| Lunch | |
| Case Study 2 | TBA |
| Breakout Sessions: HVAC Noise Control, ADA Compliance,Working with school boards, Criterion development | |
| Break (Chairmen prepare summary of breakout sessions) | |
| Panel discussion and summary | Hochberg |
WORKSHOP FACULTY
| David Anstrand, RA. Architect, Manheim Township Public Schools |
| Arthur Boothroyd, PhD. Professor, City University of New York PhD Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences. |
| Bennett Brooks, Principal, Brooks Acoustics Corporation. |
| John Erdreich, PhD, FASA. Principal, Ostergaard Acoustical Associates. President, National Council of Acoustical Consultants. |
| Victor Gladstone, PhD, Director of Audiology, American Speech, Language and Hearing Association. |
| Judith Gravel, PhD. Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY. |
| Katherine S. Harris, PhD, FASA. Professor Emeritus, City University of New York, PhD Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences. Vice-President, Haskins Laboratories. |
| R. Kring Herbert, FASA, INCE Bd. Cert., Principal, Ostergaard Acoustical Associates. |
| Irving Hochberg, PhD. Chairman, City University of New York, PhD Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences. |
| Marc Ross, PhD. Consultant, Lexington Center Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center. |
| Richard Schwartz, PhD. Professor, City University of New York, PhD Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences. |
| Lois Thibault, AIA, Director of Training, United States Access Board. |
For more details and registration information, see the Workshop Brochure on the ASA website.