This week’s topics
Overcoming barriers to communication
- Sensory impairment and cognitive decline
- Linguistic and cultural obstacles
- Assistive technology and augmentative tools
- Advocacy and translation services
- Working together for mental wellbeing in BME communities
- Lost In Translation: Cross Cultural Communication Strategies
- How to speak when you don't have a voice | BBC Ideas
What you will be able to do
- 1.2 Describe strategies to overcome communication barriers.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: describe strategies to overcome communication barriers.
Study materials
Videos
- Working together for mental wellbeing in BME communities · YouTube · Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) · 10 min · for registered students
- Lost In Translation: Cross Cultural Communication Strategies · YouTube · UCTVSeminars · 76 min · for registered students
- How to speak when you don't have a voice | BBC Ideas · YouTube · BBC Ideas · 5 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Communication for Nurses: Talking with Patients (Lapum et al., TMU, 2020) · Reading · Other, textbook · for registered students
- College Success, ch. 8.5: Barriers to effective communication · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 246–252 · for registered students
- Business Communication for Success, ch. 18.1: Intercultural communication · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 682–685 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
