Communicating with others

I am aware of different ways that I communicate with others. I communicate differently with my parents, my co-workers and my friends. I am communicate more vocally with my friends than I do my co-workers. I communicate using a dialect of English with my parents and sometimes my friends. I am more vocal, more animated, I use my hands to gesture a lot more. If I were to have my co-workers in the same room when I speak with my parents they would probably ask me who that person was.

I think because of my comfort level with a particular set of people will influence my means of communicating.

Working in the some schools, I have learnt that children with special needs can communicate and although they may not be able to do so verbally, there are ways that they caregivers understand there language and so they are able to verbalize on their behalf.

In order to practice effective communication with each other we must:

Improve our listening ability, the most effective communication can take place when all the people in a conversation is actively listening

Communicating the most important information whether verbally or written,

Following the Platinum rule, treat others the way they want to be treated