
Special Needs Communication Course
Support begins with understanding. This course helps your team master communication with special needs clients—reducing frustration, building trust, and delivering more inclusive, respectful care.
Communication with special needs clients is the path to clarity with care
Communication is a two-way street where both parties receive and give information, as simple as it is not everyone can communicate with ease. Communication with special needs clients means dealing with clients who have conditions that impairs their speech or understanding. Because of their conditions they're often discriminated against or neglected because of the communication barrier.Communication with Special Needs clients requires understanding their condition and its effects on their overall well-being in order to meet them in the middle. They must understand the verbal and non-verbal cues in order to know what their client needs, this is especially true for those who suffered strokes, dealing with mental disabilities like dementia, and physical disability (deaf-mute).
The Communications with Special Needs Course focuses on understanding how different kinds of conditions affect a client’s communication skills as well as focus on how healthcare workers should talk to their clients by using different techniques based on the type of condition a client has. Through this course, your employees will be able to improve on their overall client-care centered skill to be able to give their clients a better quality of living and reduce communication discrimination based on their condition.
Course Goals:
✅Describe the ways to communicate effectively
✅Identify the barriers in communication
✅Explain how to communicate with clients experiencing different disabilities
✅Apply different communication techniques towards different conditions
Course Objectives:
By the end of this course, the learner will be able to
✅Effectively communicate with clients with special needs
✅Develop strategies to overcome communication barriers
✅Improve communication outcomes with clients with various special needs
✅Create a more supportive and caring environment for clients
Course Outline:
Lesson 1: Communicating Effectively
Lesson 2: Barriers in Communication
Lesson 3: Special Communication Tips on Sensory Problems
Lesson 4: Special Communication Tips on Stroke
Lesson 5: Communication tips on people who are visually impaired
Lesson 6 Communicating with clients with Dementia
Lesson 7: Communicating with clients with Emotional / Mental Health Impairment
Lesson 1: Communicating Effectively
Lesson 2: Barriers in Communication
Lesson 3: Special Communication Tips on Sensory Problems
Lesson 4: Special Communication Tips on Stroke
Lesson 5: Communication tips on people who are visually impaired
Lesson 6 Communicating with clients with Dementia
Lesson 7: Communicating with clients with Emotional / Mental Health Impairment
What's in this course
Learning Level : Beginner
Duration: 35 minutes
Format : SMS
Quizzes: 10
Lessons: 7
Certificate: Digital Certificate of Completion
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