Evaluate own communication skills in terms of developing relationships with children.

D1 – Evaluate own communication skills in terms of developing relationships with children.
At my placement overall I found that I could communicate quite well with children. I felt that whatever I wanted to say to the children they could understand me and would listen to me.
0-1 – I found it easy to talk to the child and interact with it however I found it too hard to understand what the child was saying back to me or if they wanted something I thought it was quite hard because they would speak in babble and I would have to rely on hand gestures to make out what they wanted or not. I would also use hand gesture myself to communicate with them because at times they couldn’t understand me either. As a child of this age isn’t very cognitively or intellectually developed it would obviously be hard to understand. To improve I would practice and learn some more hand gestures.
