Task A – Communication and relationships -(ref 1.1, 1.2, 1.3)
Explain the term ‘communication’ in the context within your role of supporting children, young people and adults
Communication means “the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, signals, writing, or behaviour”.
Communication is a way to develop a strong and positive relationship. For developing a strong and positive relationship it is important to have effective communication. In our role of supporting children, young people and adults it is very important to have strong, trusting and positive relationship.
Effective communication helps us to develop a strong positive …show more content…
The main form of communication is crying. For example if they are hungry or they need to be changed they alert their parents/ carers by crying.
From the age of 18 months to 2 years child knows few words like, ‘no’, ‘yes’, ‘drink’, ‘come’, ‘go’, ‘bye-bye’.
By the age of 3yrs child knows around 300 words, they can use plural and makes mistakes like sheeps, drawed etc, starts to ask questions and also starts to use negatives.
Making eye contact, smiling, talking to them- from the early start of babies it is necessary to talk to them, sing and read to them. While looking after babies if we talk to them this allows them to communicate back in their own way and make them feel loved and cared for.
Little babies smile back when they see a smiling face, respond to their primary carer’s voice.
1-3yrs old can understand few words like bye, hello, come. This is the age when they learn new words very …show more content…
It is caused by many different factors, including but not limited to age, noise, illness, chemicals and physical trauma.
The skills used for child suffering from hearing impairment are-
• They learn from watching others.
• Print, pictures and gestures
• Story books, role play and discussions of the real experience
• Sign language.
Speech, language or communication impairment
Receptive language skill explains the ability to understand the spoken language. They can also be mentioned as ‘verbal comprehension skills’.
Following are some of the features of receptive language skills. Students may:
• They may have difficulty following the class routines.
• They find it hard to concentrate.
• May rely on other to do what needs to be done
• May have difficulty in understanding mental concepts (like maths and numeracy & world around us).
• May need instructions repeated lots of time and may need instruction to be broken/ simplified.
• Give wrong answers to question asked, as they couldn’t understand the question.
• May opt out of the activities, as they don’t understand it.
• Repeat what has been said to them.
• May find hard to learn new words.
Skills needed to support children with receptive language