1.2 Explain How To Adapt Communication With Children And Young People

Children are social learners and it is crucial that all adults working with them need to model good communication through listening and speaking which will aid the development of the child’s friendships, confidence and self-esteem.

TDA 2.3 – Communication and Professional Relationships with Children Young People and Adults Interacting with and Responding to with Children and Young People

As a child grows into a young person/young adult they will again use more complex words and start to negotiate a discussion using longer more advanced words and sentence structure, allowing an older child the time to talk and to tell you how they are feeling is essential as this develops their social skills.

Communicate with children and young people in a way that is appropriate to the individual, using both conventional language and body language

Adapting communication based on your audience is very important to ensure that your message is fully understood. Therefore, you must change how you communicate with different people and in different situations.

When we communicate with people be it children young people or adults we adapt our communication to the appropriate language. We will do this automatically if we are in a meeting with other professionals, we will act and speak in a formal and professional manner, whilst speaking to a infant we will be more animated and speak in a higher voice which we know will keep the babies attention. So when I communicate with children I need to be clear so they can understand what is expected of them.

Jane will have multiple opportunities to improve her communication skills. Jane will be able to use verbal skills to speak with her peer when completing the reading and summarizing of the paragraph. Jane will have to verbally speak with her peer to discuss the main ideas of the paragraph and fill out the graphic organizer. Jane will then participate in a whole classroom discussion where she can share the main ideas from the content that has been read. However, since Jane does struggle with comprehending text the teacher will allow for more time for Jane when answering questions about the main ideas of the content.

Effective communication, and respectful relationships are vital when talking with children, young people, and adults as they both allow accurate gathering of information and feelings and the subsequent passing along of any issues that may need to be followed up on.

When communicating with children, it is important to talk at their level while maintaining eye contact and use positive body language. We must give them time to understand and absorb what is being said to them. This will make the children feel respected and develop trust and thus they will feel confident to communicate with us. The child’s learning and development will benefit if the adults in their life can communicate effectively about them.

Explain how positive changes to the communication environment can support communication development for children and young people with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties.

Hearing is very important for learning. Hearing status is strongly correlated with academic performance so these children need to be identified to help ensure positive outcomes. A mild loss may go unnoticed but can have detrimental effects on learning. Classrooms can be noisy environments which are challenging for normal hearing listeners and even more so for children with hearing losses. Providing integrated audiological and speech services through the school system helps identify children who are at risk for difficulties and provide interventions to help ensure a smooth transition to school. The school is a good access point for these services because it is close to the child’s home, parents have a direct contact, wait times can be shorter

While the I.E.P was in progress child A informed me that he finds it very difficult to communicate with other pupils this is due to him having special educational needs. Child A finds it difficult to communicate due to him feeling like other people are treating him differently because of his condition, all he wants is to feel ‘normal’ like every other child. To help child A develop his social and communicational needs in the future we will arrange ‘friendships groups’. These will be introduced at the beginning of the new school term in order to help child A improve his social interaction skills by letting him meet new friends. In year 1 child A is well known and liked but he feel his peers are treating him differently due to his peers knowing

When communicating with younger children it is essential that we are at the same eye level as the child and use simple instructions in a friendly tone broken

There are many ,situations when we have to adapt communication with adults. When the recipient is from the different to ours social background, the language we use should not offend and should be easy to understand. Sometimes, the English is not the first language of the person we want to communicate, therefore, the words we speak out should be pronounced very clearly in simple sentences. Other situations when we will need to adapt communication is disability, hearing or sight loss. In those cases we can use sign language, or, in the case of sight loss, we should speak in such way that recipient could understand us well without looking at us. Another example where specific adaptation is needed, is the initial reaction of the parent or other

Jim’s self-concept displays his upset that no matter the amount of effort he applies to his grades he will never meet his father’s expectations. This discourages Jim, creating self-doubt and a negative impact on his self-esteem. Jim feels that he cannot do better than what he is doing because he possibly feels defeated.