BTEC HSC. Unit 1.Barriers to communication and ways to overcome them
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Visual disabilities
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Hearing disabilities
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Environmental factors
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Test out eyes to see if they need glasses
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Go to doctors and get there eyes tested out
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If the sun was out and making seeing the board, the person can close
the blinds to see it better
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Ask the presenter to make the text bigger/font darker
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Learn to know sign language
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If there was loud noises outside turn the TV or phone up to the
highest
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Move up close to the board to see better
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Write down sentences for the person with hearing disabilities
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in a noisy room the person cant hear their friend they should go to a
quiet room
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Language differences
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Jargon, slang and dialects
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Physical or intellectual difficulties
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Use google translate
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Use formal language instead of slang when writing e-mails and letters
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The person body language could show that the person is not interested
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Learn the language
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Use slang when playing games with friends or texting friends
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The person could not look interested into what the person is talking
about
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Read the translate book when you are in their country
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Teach older people what are most slangs
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The person would listen to what their friend was saying because not listen
would mean that the person isn’t listening to their friend and it is rude
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Cultural interpretations
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Emotional factors
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Social
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Burping in India means that you like the food that the cook made so if
someone burps and doesn’t say sorry it is not because they are rude but
saying thanks to the cook
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If someone loves another person they won’t listen to the person
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Social networks are to addicted and people would not get off them
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The OK sign that we know that is Ok also money or coins in Asia or
zero in France or Belgium
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If someone went to Greece and put their hand up the Greece people know
think that the person is telling there friend to go to hell but it is only a
way of catching their eye
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People who loves social networks will get into other people’s personal
space and take photos of them all the time
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Name: Paul McGeown
