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describe how to adapt communication to meet different communications needs.

what does this mean?

thanks

You will automatically adapt when you communicate with people you meet in life.

If you have a parent that is deaf - how are you going to communicate with them?

Is the parent able to lip read or will s/he 'sign?'

If you need to contact them about something would you telephone them?
or write to them?
or speak to a spouse/partner etc

These are things you would have to put in place if you had a parent that was deaf.

People may be blind or from a different country and don't speak English, they may be of a different culture and prefer you to speak to them formally.

You may have parents that can't attend an 'open afternoon' - do you offer an alternative day or evening so you communicate with them?

Think of the parents/carers you see or that you may encounter in the future and think how you would communicate with them.