Overcoming Barriers to Communication
Overcoming barriers to communication Barriers | Explain the factors that influence communication P3 | Explain strategies that can be used to overcome the barriers P4 | Visual disability | Someone who is blind won’t be able to see any non-verbal communication methods such as hand gestures or facial expressions. This person would rely heavily auditory communication. | To overcome the barrier of a visual disability, you would have to compensate by putting more focus into what you’re saying and how you’re saying it. Also a blind person rely’s heavily on touch and feel, so literally lending a helping hand would be a good idea. | Hearing disability | Someone who is deaf won’t be able to hear auditory communication like talking, so they would rely solely on what they can see and feel. | To overcome this barrier you would again have to compensate by putting more focus into non-verbal communication methods such as hand gestures, facial expressions and touch. | Noisy environment | A noisy environment will make any communication that involves sound, harder to interpret. This barrier also makes it hard to converse with more than one person at a time. | To overcome this barrier the simplest option is to move to a less noisy environment or wait until the noise has subsided. If you cannot wait then another option is to combine loud speaking with hand gestures to get your message across. | Language differences | Understanding a foreign language is one of the hardest tasks, and will slow or stop any communication at the start. Universal communication methods such as hand gestures would be used as they can be understood by any one. | This is a almost impossible barrier to overcome using verbal communication so your only option is to use non-verbal methods to send your message to a recipient. | Learning difficulties | If someone has learning difficulties, i.e a very short attention span, and then communications with them will be much more difficult. The hard bit