Intended effects leading to improving communication with the patient

The intended impact of this unit is to enable you to work with a disabled patient, examine a blind person and communicate the results of the examination and further procedures and therapies in a culturally sensitive way. 

Specific elements: 

• How to approach a blind person 
• How to help communicate a blind person’s complaints  
• How to avoid elements of communication that are well intentioned but ineffective or inappropriate 
• What effective and simple tools can help you communicate with blind people 
• What to do if the blind person has a companion (person or dog) 

Understanding how personality affects the experience of disability and how this affects determines the work of the physiotherapist.