Telethon Speech & Hearing is an independent, not-for-profit WA school. It provides diagnostic, therapy and support services for children with hearing loss and speech and language delays. Quash has worked with them on and off over many years.
The problem
For children with hearing loss, echo makes listening much harder. Noise reflection in classrooms was affecting students’ concentration. In the consulting and therapy rooms, conversations also needed to stay private between rooms.
What we did
- Acoustic absorption panels in classrooms, music rooms and multipurpose rooms to reduce reverberation, so speech is clearer.
- Acoustic doors between consulting rooms to reduce sound passing from one room to the next.
The consulting suites follow the same approach we use for any professional or counselling practice: control echo inside each room, then stop sound travelling between them.
The result
Clearer, calmer rooms for students and therapists, and better privacy in the consulting suites. Telethon has kept coming back to Quash as its spaces have grown and changed.
