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Originally Posted by hayc5990
Q. Review bariers to participation for carers and explain ways in which they can be overcome.
Can someone please help me how to answer this question? Just a few points which I should include?
Thank you x
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Hi
for this i wrote about parents not having enough time to speak to us and i then wrote about how this can be overcome such as:
- make appointments to suit the parent not just to suit ourselves
- E-mails are a good way this can be for newsletters, plans and observations providing consent and security issues have been met.
- Learning journals and communication books that parents can take home and retrieve information about what their child has been up to at the setting. The communication book is also good for parents to communicate back to us sometimes in the comfort of their home, they can find time to write down important information for us whilst having a relaxing sit down with a cup of tea or coffee. This can be sometimes called a diary between the setting and parent/carer.
- We can exchange phone calls with parent this can be used to share information but face to face conversation can be better. Some parents might not be able to communicate effectively face to face but they may find it harder on the other end of a phone.
- • Confidence plays a big part in interacting and communicating with us some parents lack confidence and self-esteem it is our duty to help the parents be more relaxed with us by being caring and considerate to their needs. Parents might have had a bad experience with another setting or other professionals. We need to make sure that they have a positive first experience and we need to communicate effectively to stop a barrier starting with the child’s parent/carer. Before a child starts in some settings practitioners attend home visits, this will help the parents be in control. At our setting we encourage the parent/carer to come to our setting with their child and spend some time interacting with their child’s key person because this is very important for the key person to make a secure attachment to both child and parent.
- • Some parents/carers might have language and literacy difficulties such as not speaking English or find it hard to read and write, we need to tread carefully and sensitively with these issues. If parents speak another language or English is not their first language, encourage parents to fetch someone who can interpret, to help them understand what is being said, this can also be needed in written format as most computers can change the language of written words. At our setting we have spoken to an auntie of a child and the auntie has interpretated between us and the parents, this worked for us and the parent.
- • Disability can cause difficulties with the parent and practitioner, the way we overcome these barriers depends on the individuals needs we can use signing for deafness, large print for visually impaired or have an advocate allocated to help overcome barriers that arise.
Hope it gives you a few ideas
Lynne x
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