Many blind and partially sighted people lose the ability to see gestures and facial expressions, which are important parts of communication. It becomes difficult for them to know when someone is speaking to them or even when the other person has wailed away. Written communication can be difficult for a person with low vision. Sometimes a larger font is needed, a different coloured paper for colour contrasting or the information on a disk or tape. Communication by text or e-mail can be accessed by having speech programmes installed on a computer or mobile telephone.
1.1 Describe how memory impairment can affect the ability of an individual with dementia to use verbal language. Words are hard to come by and they can struggle over the appropriate word to the point that it interrupts their flow of conversation; sometimes they will select the wrong word. This is very frustrating but in some forms of dementia it can also mean they lose short term memory and will repeat themselves, not remembering that they have told you about their day or not remembering your answers e.g. asking over and over is it Thursday today? This makes conversation stilted and difficult to maintain.
Certain jobs may be difficult to pursue. Accommodations need to be required and limitations may need to be acknowledged. Such adaptations influence perception of a crisis in a way that’s different from an individual with normal hearing. Hearing loss may trigger an identity crisis, and reactive depression may occur. Older adults who are hard of hearing often report that their hearing loss causes communication problems, which can result in difficulty thinking or concentrating.
Some of the symptoms of distress are mumbled/garbled speech or stammering, anxiety, anger, aggressive body language and concentrating problems. These are barriers that impact on effective communication, leading to misunderstanding on both sides. If you are the person in distress, you cannot hear or able to understand the whole picture because of the vicious cycle mentioned above. Individuals who are distressed will not be able to concentrate properly or focus fully, therefore their communication skills will be negatively affected. Whenever an individual becomes distressed they may experience the sense of "self" being compromised, as in low self esteem, effective communication may suffer as an individual feels withdrawn or stressed.
So expressing themselves using body language may be difficult do to lack of cognitive control in their limbs, or hands. They may also show the same signs as Alzheimer’s disease. • Lewy bodies dementia is very similar to Alzheimer’s disease, the difference being that they may have hallucinations and become fearful. This will affect communication due to their behaviour may mean they are too scared to talk, or be spoken to. Physical and mental health factors need to be taken into account when communicating with someone with dementia, they may also be hard of hearing, or have limited eyesight.
In the words of Dewey,[32] “Cluttering is an undiscovered country of speech pathology”. However, Reichel[8] stated that frustration about their own deficits or other’s deficits in understanding what they say, low self-esteem, feelings of incompetence, anxiety, anger, confusion, lack of hope about successful treatment, and low motivation can all be experienced in different combinations by different
1.1 describe the types of difficulty that individuals with an autistic spectrum condition may have with language and other ways of communicating with others The communication difficulties of autism vary from individual to individual. Some individual maybe unable to communicate verbally whilst others have an extreme vocab and are able to discuss un-depth areas of interest to them, some are able to communicate their needs and are able to express themselves whilst others need more visual methods such as pec’s or makaton. Expression of their needs can be very frustrating and they can only communicate this by shouting or screaming/challenging behaviours including self-harm. Individuals with ASD sometimes find it difficult or are unable to understand
Some people may find it difficult to express their emotions and some topics may be completely 'off-limits' or taboo. Lack of attention, interest, distractions, or irrelevance to the receiver. Differences in perception and viewpoint. Physical disabilities such as hearing problems or speech difficulties. Physical barriers to non-verbal communication.
It also regulates fear and pleasure responses. Damage to the cerebellum can result in dizziness, vertigo, ataxia which is an inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements, unsteady movements and staggering gait. This can interfere with a person's ability to walk, talk, eat, and to perform other self-care tasks. Other symptoms of a damaged cerebellum include poor motor control, the overestimation or underestimation of force, the inability to engage in rapidly alternating movements, loss of balance and loss of muscle memory. Damage to the cerebellum seems to affect procedural learning such as touch typing.
The Five barriers of communication and strategies to overcome them. Physical Disabilities (e.g. hearing problems, speech difficulties and blindness/vision impairments) For people with vision impairments, physical disabilities like hearing problems and speech difficulties effective communication can be very hard. For example when somebody is talking they may use signs or facial expressions or hand gestures to help explain what they’re saying, but for people who are visually impaired this can be difficult and sometimes impossible (e.g. blindness).