Non-Verbal Communication Full Day Course

Course overview

This course is designed for anyone wanting to improve their skills and reach their potential as a practitioner. The course is fully interactive and prompts you to assess your own approach to supporting young people who are in care or education and other settings. The course covers key topics such as law and legislation, aims to increase learners’ awareness of the issues experienced by non-verbal and pre-verbal people. Facilitators provide space for learners to explore barriers and challenges to communication and working with non-verbal children and young people. Content provides learners with information to understand communication and non-verbal cues, identify characteristics, types and functions of non-verbal communication and provides strategies to improve sending and receiving communication with non-verbal individuals. The course also includes a downloadable PDF workbook that you can fill in as you complete the training, so that you can develop your skills as a leader or manager and get the most out of the course content.

Aims and objectives

• Explain terms related to non-verbal communication in children and young people
• Discuss the related law and legislation
• Increase awareness of the issues experienced or non-verbal children
• Explore the barriers and challenges working with non-verbal children
• Understand communication and non-verbal cues
• Identify the characteristics, types and functions of nonverbal communication
• Identify and employ strategies to improve your competence in sending non-verbal messages