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Access Board To Address Classroom Acoustics

5/12/2015

The Access Board is undertaking rulemaking to supplement the ADA and ABA Accessibility Guidelines to address acoustics in classrooms. The board's effort will focus on applying a voluntary consensus standard developed by the Acoustical Society of America with support from the board that sets specific criteria for maximum background noise and reverberation time in classrooms. Click here for more information.