News, facts, success stories, and proof about our classroom audio systems

Hear and Learn worked closely with education construction stakeholders to address the evolution of personal devices worn by the hard of hearing. As reflected by the May 2022 edition of the Victorian School Building Authority Building Quality Standards Handbook, two...

Featuring a 110 seat theatre and lounge bar, Abbotsford (in Melbourne’s inner north) the new nine-story Craftworks project, designed by CHT Architects, fosters true community, culture, wellbeing and sustainability. Hear and Learn advised stakeholders to install three agile and agnostic...

The new May 2022 Building Quality Standards Handbook of the Victorian School Building Authority not only state clearly what education construction stakeholders need to do, but also offer direction on what not to do. At page 127 it is stated:...

The new May 2022 Building Quality Standards Handbook of the Victorian School Building Authority build a bridge between conclusive global research (learn more at https://www.hearandlearn.com.au/review/soundfield-amplification-research-summary) which concludes that all learners benefit from instructional audio being captured – including teacher voices...

Keeping abreast of developments in the world of hearing impairment is difficult.  That is why Hear and Learn continually procures advice from Access and Disability Consultants, and Audiologists, to make sure we don’t put product before concept. That is, we...

Soundfield is a term in Education circles to describe technology that captures the voices of Teachers and Learners, and for speakers – specifically engineered to broadcast voices in learning spaces – to remove the fade of speech intelligibility over distance. ...

The new Victorian School Building Authority Building Quality Standards Handbook offers new language to describe what must be built into a learning space. What is an on-wall interface? This means that on the wall of a learning space, there must...

The evolution of technology worn by Learners, Teachers and Visitors continues, as do understandings about what hearing augmentation is. The Victorian School Building Authority’s new rules in the Building Quality Standards Handbook of May 2022 are clear in helping us...

The VSBA is doing great things to offer clarity regarding what audio needs to be augmented when a new School is being designed and built.  The National Construction Code is not as definitive as stakeholders including Access and Disability Consultants,...

The VSBA are at the forefront of inclusion for all Learners by offering clarity about what hearing augmentation actually is.  Consistent with advice we continually procure from Access and Disability Consultants, and Audiologists, it is progressive to define what Education...