Poor lighting can prevent a person from noticing non-verbal communication and could reduce a hearing impaired person’s ability to lip read. Environments that are too hot or cold cause discomfort and those that lack privacy discourage people from expressing their feelings and problems. Developmental stage – a person’s developmental stage could limit their ability to communicate and may be a barrier to effective communication if you don’t take this into account when choosing your words or way of talking to them. Don’t use long sentences, complex words or unusual phrases with young children, for example. Sensory deprivation and disability – visual impairment may reduce a person’s ability to see faces or read written signs and leaflets.
How can positioning inhibit and improve communication? Positioning can create barrier on receiving and interpreting messages which inhibit communication. If we cannot see each other then it will inhibit communication. In care setting, it is important to keep our eyes at the same level as the person that we are communicating with. But it is as important to consider positioning while working with different people having different difficulties.
Some factors that can hinder communication are; * Poor lighting, individuals with poor sight unable to see you. * Background noise, from TV radio, other individuals. * Obstacles in-between the persons communicating. * Insufficient distance. 1.4 Analyse reasons why an individual may use a form of communication that is not based on a formal language system.
Barriers to communication could include not being able to understand or being aware of someone’s needs, wishes, beliefs values or culture, whether from the individual not being able to communicate properly through a disability( speech impediment/ deafness) or through ignorance. Having a noisy or uncomfortable environment could have a part to play as the individual may not feel comfortable or may feel they have lack of privacy. The language we/they use could also cause problems, whether someone doesn’t speak properly or clearly, or if the language being used isn’t the individuals first language. 3.2 Q. Describe ways to reduce barriers to communication A Ways to reduce barriers to communication could include:- *Showing that you are listening and interested in what the individual has to say.
1.3 Explain how distress may affect the way an individual communicates. All individuals may react differently when feeling distressed. Some may become quiet, and not want to talk or make eye contact with you. Others may become angrier, and do all the talking in the conversation, and they may begin shouting. Individual’s self-esteem can be low, and their body language may be closed or negative, this can make communication difficult with an individual whom is distressed because you may not get any feed back from them, or you may not get a change to talk or be listened to to help them.
These actions may be conscious, but as we have discussed, they can often be unconscious or unwitting. Attitudinal barriers: Are not as easy to identify as physical barriers, but they can feel every bit as real to those who are exposed to them. Barriers can be: Physical in nature: Observed in the built environment, for example in accessing buildings, narrow doorways, and the absence of lifts or accessible toilets. Physical Barriers: * Structural abnormalities in the mouth, throat, nose and tongue, the body parts involved in speaking, can prevent a child from speaking words clearly. Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder in which muscles of mouth, face and
Ineffective communication is any disruption in the process of communicating. Language is an example; if you as a sender speak in a language the receiver doesn’t understand, the communication fails. Writing a message to a person who has difficulties reading is also ineffective communication. These are called barriers, and they are not all obvious. Argyle’s communication cycle In 1972 Michael Argyle modified the communication cycle; the communication cycle consists of sending, receiving and decoding messages.
Do not use colloquial expressions. Use simple sentences, avoid compound or long sentences. Speak with intelligence and assume difference if unsure about the meaning. Assume the listener don’t understand and explain clearly. Use breaks between ideas.
People come from different cultures therefore in some cultures one thing could mean a different things from the other,so this could end in missunderstanding and missing information. Sensory barriers is onother issue for people who cannot hear or see,they cannot receive information or pass over if they have impairment to one or both senses. Environment is an issue for those who have disabilities,let say a service user in a wheel chair cannot erach to make eye contact with the receptionist,for communicating could be affected,or might be a dimly lit room and someone who cant see might have difficulties to read or see propely. Using slangs is also not a good thing to do,and people might interpret different. To use a technical language could be scary for the service user as he doesn't understand the terms and start worrying about what is going to happen is case you might, let say ,wanna take the service user to hospital to give blood to make sure on his health.
There are three types of communication barriers, these are: communication is not received, communication is received but not understood and understanding is distorted. The first communication barrier, communication is not received, is when you do not know there is language needs or preferences and not understanding sensory impairments or disability. For example if you are speaking to a deaf person and not using sign language then the sounds are not received so there is no communication. Communication may also not be received because of background noises or if you cannot see a person’s face or body so non- verbal communication is not fully received. The second communication barrier, communication is received but not understood, is when a person is using jargon, slang, complex technical terminology or a different language and their message is not understood.