Futures of the environment that may help or hinder communication: Lighting – Poor lighting can hinder communication especially if the person has a hearing or visual disability, as they may rely on looking at facial expressions. Distractions – Some people can find difficult to concentrate with background noise. People with hearing problem may find difficult to hear clearly if the television or radio is on. Positioning – it is important for effective communication that people can see each other’s body language and facial expressions as these support verbal speech. Barriers – Barriers such a desk or table can block the view of each other’s body language, and create a sense of unease or hierarchy.
For people who are blind or partially sighted impacts on the individual can include losing the ability to read peoples facial expressions, body language or to see bodily gestures. This will also affect their reading skills such as simple things like reading books, magazine even personal documents such as bank statements or household bills which in time will cause tensions for the person and may cause the to withdraw from society. Relying on some one else to read their written communication in regards to private correspondence has an effect on maintaining the persons dignity and confidentiality. For people who have hearing impairments or deafness they will have problems with communication with others face to face as the wont hear all or none of the
Q3) There are a number of factors which can contribute to an individual being more vulnerable to these types of abuse, including, no or little family contact, their personal communication skills and their past experiences. If the client has learning disabilities or any other for that matter, this can also make them vulnerable as they may have communication problems and may not understand what is going on around them. This may cause them to not know
But as the disease progresses it becomes more difficult as the language skills become impaired, which makes it very difficult to understand what they are trying to say. Positive communication can help a person with dementia to maintain their dignity and self esteem. 1.4) Describe how different forms of dementia may affect the way an individual communicates.. All forms of dementia can affect the way a person communicates, so in time they may have to find different ways of expressing themselves and their feelings. In the early stages of some forms of dementia people may have difficulty finding the right words they are looking for so as a carer you use Body language facial expressions, gestures, eye contact and tone of voice n the later stages of some forms of dementia the words could be lost completly. 2.0) Undertand the importance of positive interactions with individuals with dementia.
When a person is experiencing negative symptoms it is sometimes confused with depression because they share some of the same symptoms such as needing help with everyday tasks, failing to take care of their basic hygiene, laziness or no drive to help themselves with anything. The last type of symptom associated with Schizophrenia is cognitive symptoms, like negative symptoms, these symptoms are sometimes difficult to associate with Schizophrenia and may only be found or recognized when tests are ran. People with cognitive symptoms may lack the following: the ability to understand information and use it to make
Discrimination can not only affect the person being discriminated against, it can affect their family, the wider community and the person using the discriminatory behaviour. When people are discriminated against they are denied the same advantages as others, therefore do not have the chance to reach their full potential. Thus, they do not progress or experience success which results in damage to their self-esteem which may dampen their motivation to learn. If they do not learn the required skills needed for certain rules they become excluded. Those who inflict the discrimination are also affected as they have the assumption that people have less value or are inferior to them, which leads them to have a false view/ distorted view of the world.
sometimes someone with sensory loss may find it difficult to know whether they are being spoken to. Being able to read letter emails or texts can sometimes cause people to stop using these form of communication. Using telephones can be difficult. Positive things that could be done is larger and different colour font being used. Speech programs installed on pc or telephone.
There are a number of factors that can impact individuals with sensory loss. In many cases sensory loss is hidden and people can be unaware an individual has sensory loss. Communication is an area in which people with sensory loss have many issues. Normal day to day activities can cause them a great deal of stress and anxiety. For example if someone does not have a sensory loss they may enjoy watching television.
This mainly occurs because people do not pay close enough attention to the details around them. Loftus article illustrates information about different types of memory incidences that can typically lead to falsification. For example, scrambled memories occur when people mistake details when they are retrieving a certain story. This becomes a problem because people will make add or remove information that
Not being able to express their feelings, needs and not being understood can make the service user frightened and distressed as well as a strong possibility of confusion and misunderstanding. In such cases a professional interpreter is needed. It is tempting to use a family member but the service user may not want family members involved in personal discussions about health or care issues.in addition their ability to interpret may not be as good as a professional interpreter’s and misunderstandings can easily