OTTAWA -- Noisy classrooms are preventing children from learning and taking a health toll on teachers, according to experts who want the federal government to adopt national sound standards for new schools and improvements made to existing ones.
"Excessive background noise and poor acoustics can lead to poor understanding of the speech signal, decreased performance by students, reading deficiencies, delayed language acquisition and many other negative consequences," Linda Walsh, president of the Canadian Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists, said at a news conference on Parliament Hill on Friday.
Source: Canwest News Service
