This article provides an overview of the importance of classroom acoustics on the learning potential of children with hearing loss and related disabilities. It examines early seminal research on classroom acoustics and suggests implications for education. It also calls for the development of standards to promote acceptable acoustical environments.…

This article discusses how poor room acoustics can make speech inaudible and presents a speech-perception model demonstrating the linkage between adequacy of classroom acoustics and the development of a speech and language systems. It argues both aspects must be considered when evaluating barriers to listening and learning in a classroom.…

Focuses on the relationship between loudness and intensity of sounds. (Author/PVD)

Focuses on the concepts of pitch and timbre of sounds. (PVD)

This article discusses the increasing number of students with hearing impairments in general education classrooms due to the higher incidence of students with hearing loss in general and changes in school placement decisions. The increasing noise in classrooms because of hands-on activities and the consequent effects on learning are explored.…

Discusses the acoustics of bells by examining what determines the quality of a bell, the frequency it emits, and the note perceived by the listener. The analysis concentrates on a ship's bell but also considers several handbells. Laboratory bench set up for studying bells and nodal lines of bells are illustrated. (BC)