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Understand how to reduce barriers to communication

Visit the webpage below which is part of the Social Care TV website. The page contains a short video showing how practitioners encourage the communication skills of people with autism as well as improving their own ability to communicate with them. Watch the video and make notes. What can you learn from the video? Is there anything that you can relate to your setting?

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Communication Matters is a UK charitable organisation of members concerned with using assistive technologies and devices to aid communication, including eye pointing, word boards, and speech output devices.
Speech and Language UK is the operating name of I CAN Charity, a UK children’s communication charity focusing on development of speech, language and communication skills with a particular emphasis on those with communication difficulties.
This article on ‘How to check if you have been understood’ is on the Active Social Care website.
Look on the internet to find websites that provide information about speech difficulties. Could you learn Makaton speech and sign, perhaps? What else can you discover that helps your understanding of others and the way they communicate?
Your role will often bring you into contact with adults who have difficulties communicating with you. Use the internet to find out ways that you can adapt the way you communicate to ensure effective communication with those with a speech, visual or hearing impairment, for whom English is an additional language, or who do not speak English at all.

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