• Communicating with children – There are many similarities between communicating with adults and children – always maintaining eye contact and interest, and treat them with respect. However, when communicating with, we also need to thing about how we maintain the relationship of carer to child and what this means to in a school. When communicating with children, we need to very clear and unambiguous in what we say. We can’t forget the importance of making sure that children understand what we mean and might ask, ‘What did I just ask you to do?’. We need to aware of physical contact with children should not be encouraged when communicating with them.
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Explain how to adapt communication to meet different communication needs of adults.
It is important that we are sensitive to the needs of other adults, particularly if they have communication difficulties. It is possible that we will adapt the way we communicate with them without realizing that. We often change the way we react to others. For example: if we are speaking to a parent or carer who is hearing-impaired, we might make sure we are facing them and giving eye contact. Often school will send out or gather information in particular way, like email or