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Courses offer American Institute of Architects (AIA) certification credits, a
yearly requirement for AIA members —
BLUFFDALE,
UT, October 3, 2014 — Listen
Technologies Corporation, the leading designer, manufacturer and
distributor of assistive listening products for over 16 years, has made it an
ongoing priority to offer contractors, system integrators, consultants,
architects and venue owners the most up-to-date resources on how to best serve
those requiring assistive listening. These resources explore and clarify
guidelines and recommendations set forth by institutions and legislative
efforts including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the California
Building Code (CBC), the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disability Act and
other related measures. Compliance with these guidelines is not only mandatory
and legally enforced, but a clear moral imperative; however, many
professionals, although well-meaning, let certain considerations in regard to
hearing disability fall through the cracks when designing new structures or
updating existing facilities. A new set
of courses offered by Listen is specifically designed to educate architects
on ADA and CBC recommendations, offering credits for American Institute of
Architects (AIA) certification in the process.
Listen Technologies
has been approved to teach two courses, both earning (1) LU/HSW credit:
1. Course
Title: ADA Assistive
Listening Legislation
2. Course
Title: California Building
Code & The ADA Assistive Listening Legislation
Course
objectives:
- Understand
the impact of the new requirements of the ADA/CBC
- Understand
the unique sound needs of the hard of hearing community
- Apply
the ADA (or CBC, in California) to the welfare of people requiring
assistive listening systems
- Recognize
the technologies that can reconnect people to a positive experience in any
venue
The courses are offered on an individual
basis by Listen personnel at sites around the U.S. To inquire about a scheduled
session or to set up a course date, please email sales@listentech.com. The company will also
have the courses available as webinars at www.listentech.com.
For architects to remain certified
through AIA, they are required to have 18 total learning units each year. Of
these 18 required (LU) Learning Units, 12 of them must be in the category of
Health, Safety and Welfare (HSW). Listen has developed these courses (ADA &
the CBC) along with their objectives, to align under HSW learning units. These courses
offered by Listen are informative and educational in nature and talk about the
“why” of hearing loss – how many people have hearing loss, why hearing aids are
not enough in a venue, what happens when people have hearing loss and what that
is like – and then goes into the ADA and CBC codes, which are actually fairly
straightforward. They then address the different types of solutions offered by
Listen and the pros/cons of each technology.
Cory Schaeffer, Listen Technologies
Vice President of Business Development, states, “Offering a presentation that
provides AIA/HSW Learning Units to architects allows Listen to share our unique
wealth of knowledge with this group of professionals. Often AV is the last
‘trade’ brought into a project, and for some assistive listening technologies that
is way too late. These courses allow us to share information about hearing loss
with architects and the fact that it’s the largest disability covered under the
ADA (17% compared to 1.4% requiring wheelchair access), as well as what the ADA
and other building code requirements are and what technologies meet the code
and the advantages/disadvantages of each technology. We know that once participating
architects have completed these courses, more consideration will be made
earlier in projects.”
For more
information on these courses and all other inquiries, please email sales@listentech.com.
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