HUSHH-UPS® - Overview

Acoustic Benefits

  • Improve students’ ability to hear, discriminate speech and attend to their teacher during instructional periods
  • Enhance students’ comprehension of oral language
  • Enrich the learning environment for all students by eliminating the scraping noise of chairs in classrooms
  • Improve students' attention and concentration by decreasing distracting noise
  • Eliminate chair noise between floors in schools with multiple stories

Financial Benefits

  • Diminish floor damage caused by chairs scraping on tiled floors
  • Reduce custodial staff time spent on maintaining and cleaning grooved and marked tiled floors
  • Decrease the frequency of resurfacing and replacing tiled floors
  • Save on the cost of cleaning products used to upkeep floors

Health and Safety Benefits

  • Reduce headaches, fatigue, and stress experienced by teachers and students who are exposed to the constant scraping noise of chairs
  • Decrease the strain on the teacher’s voice while trying to speak louder than the noise of the chairs. Studies have shown that teachers’ have a high incidence of vocal chord problems
  • Eliminate the safety concerns that arise if custodians, teachers, parents or students attempt to cut their own tennis balls with sharp knives

 

 

  

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Last modified: March 22, 2008