Case Study: Communication Barriers & Skill Development in Children

This presentation provides an overview of communication in children, highlighting the importance of language and communication development for fine motor skills and cognitive growth. It includes a case study of a 5-year-old boy named Aarav who faces communication challenges. The presentation identifies various communication barriers such as one-sided communication, inadequate listening, and anger, and discusses the significance of verbal, non-verbal, and visual communication skills. Furthermore, it explores resources and strategies to enhance communication skills in children, including frequent conversations, storytelling, and teaching body language. The report concludes that addressing communication barriers and fostering communication skills are crucial for children's overall development and well-being, emphasizing the role of parents and educators in creating a supportive communication environment.

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Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Case study....................................................................................................................................1
Communication Barriers..............................................................................................................1
Communication skills..................................................................................................................2
Resources which may assist with communication ......................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Communication is basically a process which involve an exchange of information such as
thought or ideas between the persons. For children the communication as well as language
development is very important because speaking is a vital indicator of fine motor skill
development. It is also a reflection of cognitive development among the children's. The given
presentation studies give the brief description on children's communication along with the
communication barriers. It also discussed the understanding of communication skills as well as
the resource which could enhance the communication skills in children.
MAIN BODY
Case study
Aarav is a 5 year old boy, who lived with their parents. He feel sometime sad, quiet as
well as angry because of communication problem. He is unable to speak properly or clearly. He
talk only to his parents in front of other he seems to be quiet. When he want something he only
utter that word as he does not speak properly a sentence (Rahma, Lestari & Nugroho., (2018)).
This is happen because he had only one person to talk for a whole day is his mother who is
already busy in the house chores. Sometime she agitated due to the aarav communication
problem. His father is not present at house for a whole day and he arrived home after at night
when Aarav sleep. He play all alone him self at home all the day. His admission to kindergarten
was delay due to Covid-19. Only that time he learnt few word to speak after that he find
difficulty in speaking.
Communication Barriers
The healthy communication pattern is important for children growth, development, for
proper social, academic as well as emotional development. The inadequate parent child
communication may result a child that they start seeking potential negative source of
information. The communication barriers may cause an unnecessary stress as well as argument.
Some of the communication barriers in children are mentioned below:
 One sided communication- A communication may not move forward when the
participation are not two sided. For instance, the one sided communication may include
demands, refuse to acknowledge the questions or answer, ignoring an attempt to
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communicate as well as lecturing without encouraging child. An engaging children
within the one-sided discussion with children may generate a communication barriers.
 Listening- This is the other communication barrier. This include an inadequate listening
skills with child of any age group. In case a child start assuming or thinking that the other
person is not listening properly during their conversation then they lost interest in
communication (Ruggiero & at.et., (2021)).
 Anger- This is a type of communication barriers. As communication which start or end
the communication in anger are related to unhealthy communication and it can influence
the growth of communication barrier to children or their parents or other people. It is very
inevitable that child will or from time to time may become emotional as well as get angry
during the conversation.
Communication skills
The communication skills are the skills which let an individual to express themselves
clearly as well as confidently in each aspects or areas of lives. A good communication may
enhance a better understanding among the individuals, lessen conflicts as well as create a
harmonious environment. But poor communication may lead to increase misunderstanding,
frustration as well as conflicts within the people. As there are primarily three types of
communication in human such as verbal, non verbal as well as visual communication. The
communication skills may consist of various other skills such as listening, observing, speaking as
well as empathizing (Susilowati & Azzasyofia., (2020)). The children are supposed to master in
all the mentioned communication skills because all the mentioned communication skills are vital
to children throughout their lives.
 The verbal communication are required in children to speak appropriately with other in
order to deliver their content to work well in front of others. In order to accomplish a
successful lives a children need to learn to speak clearly and properly.
 In order to become a good communicators the non- verbal communication skills are also
important for children. It is very essential to taught a children to maintain a proper eye
contact while talking to other person. As it develop interest or respect to other.
 The other communication skills is visual, as this skills is greatly involves in the use of
visual which can be used to read or to viewed the ideas or information to be conveyed to
others. It is important for the children to develop communication skills as it assist the
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children to write clearly or concisely, to draw graphs, charts, maps, books and many other
things (Tohidast & et.al., (2020)).
Resources which may assist with communication
The communication skills can be nourished as well as cultured by practice. There are
various skills or tips are used to develop children communication skills are mentioned below:
 Talking to children more often- a children can learn a lot of things from their parents or
friends. When their parent start talking to their child more and more on regular basis then
they can rise a great chance to develop their communication skills. It is very important
that their parents as well as child teachers provide an encouragement to engage in
conversation more and more. It is also important for the listener to listen patiently to
children and try to ask them a relevant question as well (Saibovich., (2019)).
 Play story telling- when the parents or children are used to stories telling to each other
then it can make better communication to solve bigger issues in easy way. As through
story telling a children can learn a new word as well as learn to correct their grammatical
errors.
 Teach children about body gestures- Making proper eye contact with children while
communication is very important. As proper eye contact while communication can make
children to feel more comfortable as well as display them a appreciation for active
participation in the conversation. It essential for the listener to explain a body language
meaning because it is also a part of communication (Al-Hourani & KHARABE.,
(2022)).
CONCLUSION
From the above given report, it has been concluded that communication is processes in
which an information is exchanged with one another. It is also concluded that language as well
as communication development is very important in children growth. As it lead to growth fine
motors, listening, speaking and many other things. The project concluded different types of
communication barriers such as anger, one-sided communication and many other things. The
project report also concluded different types of communication skills such as verbal, non-verbal
as well as visual communication. The project report also concluded the resources which is used
to enhance communication in children.
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REFERENCES
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