This free online course will teach you to enhance and utilise tools and techniques for communicating with children. Effective communication is crucial in any situation where people need to connect. People transmit and receive messages when communicating. Residential childcare staff interact with children and adolescents for a variety of reasons. To form and maintain relationships, people who work in residential childcare settings must develop excellent communication skills. This course will teach you how to improve and use these abilities properly.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 192307 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Identify the different methods of communication • Explain the role of different services in assisting effective communication • Recognise the influence of active listening • Describe the process of sharing information with relevant agencies • Discuss the various communication barriers to effective communication • State the procedures for facilitating effective communication • Outline the techniques for communicating with very young children • Define the notion of communication cycle |
| Course Code | 1260 |

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