The Importance Of Communication: Communication And Special Needs

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Communication and Special Needs
-Communication and special needs:
Communication is a process in which a message is encoded by the encoder and received by the decoder. What is the importance of communication? It is a humorous and useless question since everything happens around us depends on communication such as: interacting with people and sharing ideas and experiences. Many people think that communication is only related to verbal skills like listening and speaking, but this is a common misunderstanding since gestures, eye contact and body language are considered non-verbal communication which is one of its types. This is how normal people communicate, but what about special needs? The disabled people who are affected by blindness, deafness …show more content…

If we look around us we will find a down syndrome, blind or deaf person in every single family. In the United States, there are more than 150.00 children with special needs. Special needs are a broad range of disorders affecting behaviors and communication processes. It is known that good communication is the foundation of any successful relationship. Although special needs have many obstacles to communicate god give them the strength to interact through many ways. Such as Down syndrome and deaf people who are communicate visually by using body language, facial expressions, eye contact, touching and moreover they communicate continuously through wordless signals. In addition to deaf-blind people who have not the ability to hear or see, they are also communicating through non-verbal communication. Non-verbal communication is a very strong way of communication which helps special needs to develop their communication skills and become better communicators. Accordingly special needs require specialized learning strategies, so all over the world there is campaign to have more awareness and focused more attention on finding kindergarten, care homes, centre's and schools for children with special needs. Disabled people can be frustrating, rude, disrespectful, infuriating and even dangerous. That is why it is important to provide special needs with enough care centre's and specialists professional to make sure that they learnt how to communicate with themselves and how to communicate with the outside world to avoid miscommunication in their lives. Last but not least, special needs are quite special. Consequently if you do not do anything useful to help or develop disabled issue, please have a shred of humanity and leave them with their situation they already suffer more than you could ever

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