Moderate-disturbance classrooms merge consultation into the quiet room and add group-project space¶

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Description¶

For moderately disturbed children the booklet relaxes the severe-disorder scheme: "Classrooms for moderately disturbed children differ from those for severely disturbed children in the elimination of separate consultation rooms and washrooms." The quiet room, furnished, doubles as a consultation space, and Drawings 4-6 show how space may be provided for group projects, including trapezoidal desks that join into large tables and a tiled floor area that normalizes everyday noise.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

A quiet room containing some furniture that can also serve consultation purposes

Constraints¶

About one quarter of the floor area can be tiled; a non-rectangular room has less efficient wall storage space

Target Learners¶

moderately emotionally disturbed children

Target Goals¶

individual work, group projects, and consultation within one flexible classroom

Claims¶

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

Special Education Facilities for Emotionally Disturbed Children. (1968). Ontario Department of Education. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED085907

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`title`	`Moderate-disturbance classrooms merge consultation into the quiet room and add group-project space`
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