Professionals who take part in the building process have long been concerned with the same environmental factors, e.g. spatial layout, capacity, and function, as well as user demography. Through the knowledge gained on the ways environmental factors affect users of buildings, the need to understand how to handle these factors has grown, due to their influence on the building process. It will be shown how research on the

A pronounced ambition concerning the educational policy in Sweden is to organize an all-inclusive school, meaning that schools should be able to meet the needs of all children, irrespective of their capacities and conditions. However, there were no specific guidelines for the school environment as a learning environment. In my thesis The Human Environment Interaction-model is implemented to identify environmental factors that affect children with ADHD, autism, and Down's syndrome and their ability to concentrate in their learning environment at school. The issue was not to dismiss any of the additional resources these children are in need of; instead it was to suggest how to arrange learning environments in the most supportive way possible. This presentation will focus on aspects of acoustics which are—and which are not—beneficial for children with autism. The results from the thesis have been an underlying basis for further work at the National Agency for Special Needs Educations and Schools in Sweden, which will also be presented. The developed work at the Agency resulted in a tool with guidelines to make the learning environment more accessible for all children in existing classrooms, but it can also be implemented in the building process.