Unit 1 Communication
M2-D1: Review/Evaluate strategies used in health and social care environments to overcome barriers to effective communication and interpersonal interactions.
In this assignment I am going to review the barriers to effective communication and the strategies best used depending on the situation of the individual.
Within health and social care setting the range of people you could potential be working with differs from speech impairments, hearing impairments, sight impairment, physical and intellectual disabilities, language differences and assumptions or values and beliefs. These barriers can affect everyone in different ways depending on how serious the impairment could be. When communicating with these individuals achieving effective communication can be a struggle within the barriers formed, in this assignment I am going to talk about overcoming barriers of communication with three different individuals, my first individual is a child who suffers from autism, my second individual is someone who suffers from a visual impairment whilst my third individual will be someone who suffers from learning disabilities.
Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with, and relates to, other people described by The National Autistic Society [online]. (2013). It also affects how they make sense of the world around them. People with autism may also experience over- or under-sensitivity to sounds, touch, tastes, smells, light or colours. The three main areas of difficulty which all people with autism share are sometimes known as the 'triad of impairments'. They are: difficulty with social communication, difficulty with social interaction, difficulty with social imagination. They can find it difficult to use or understand: facial expressions or tone of voice, jokes and sarcasm, common phrases and sayings; an example might be the phrase 'It's cool', which people often say when they think that something is good, but strictly
In this assignment I am going to review the barriers to effective communication and the strategies best used depending on the situation of the individual.
Within health and social care setting the range of people you could potential be working with differs from speech impairments, hearing impairments, sight impairment, physical and intellectual disabilities, language differences and assumptions or values and beliefs. These barriers can affect everyone in different ways depending on how serious the impairment could be. When communicating with these individuals achieving effective communication can be a struggle within the barriers formed, in this assignment I am going to talk about overcoming barriers of communication with three different individuals, my first individual is a child who suffers from autism, my second individual is someone who suffers from a visual impairment whilst my third individual will be someone who suffers from learning disabilities.
Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with, and relates to, other people described by The National Autistic Society [online]. (2013). It also affects how they make sense of the world around them. People with autism may also experience over- or under-sensitivity to sounds, touch, tastes, smells, light or colours. The three main areas of difficulty which all people with autism share are sometimes known as the 'triad of impairments'. They are: difficulty with social communication, difficulty with social interaction, difficulty with social imagination. They can find it difficult to use or understand: facial expressions or tone of voice, jokes and sarcasm, common phrases and sayings; an example might be the phrase 'It's cool', which people often say when they think that something is good, but strictly