Service user

Different ways we can communicate

• Good communication leads to good relationships. There is no one method to achieve this, so we have to be flexible and adaptable and respond to:
  
  
• Speech and vocalisation
  
  
• Signing –such as Makaton, finger spelling, deaf-blind manual alphabet
  
  
• Adapted signing for visually impaired people
  
  
• Touch
  
  
• Body language
  
  
• Facial expressions
  
  
• Mime and gestures
  
  
• Symbols
  
  
• Music
  
  
• Smell
  
  
• Object of reference
  
  
• Pictures/photographs/tactile pictures
  
  
• Mechanical and electronic devices
  
  
• Computer assisted communication