This workshop is designed to provide practical planning strategies and methods to avoid or correct poor acoustics in existing and planned educational facilities.
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.
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
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
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.
Space is limited. Registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis . The registration fee of $100 includes Saturday's lunch and CEU credits, which are being arranged through the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, and the American Institute of Architects.
Workshop Location:
The City University of New York
Graduate Center, 18th Floor
33 West 42nd Street
New York, NY
(212) 642-1600
Conference Hotel:
Quality Hotel
3 East 40th Street
Opposite the New York Public Library
New York, NY 10016
(800) 668-4200
Cost: $149/night (single or double) Please make your own hotel reservations Mention the Workshop and the City University of New York. Cutoff date January 26, 1999.
If you have requirements for assistive listening devices or an interpreter, please check the Access Requirement box on the registration form and include a description of your needs with your registration.
For the latest information on the workshop and organizations offering CEU credits, see ASA's Web Page at http://asa.aip.org
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