Potential barriers with communication

Potential barriers with communication

People may have barriers with communicating with others, these barriers can range from verbal communication, technical problems, background noise or even just problems in just body language or spelling and grammar errors.

Verbal communication is one of the most basic forms of communicating when passing information from one person to another. Though communication of this kind can get be blocked though barriers such as; accents (like a person from Manchester trying to speak to a person from Liverpool), or perhaps the person conveying the information suffers from a speech impediment like a stutter.

Technical problems like a broken microphone or speakers can prevent the communication, especially if the person is announcing something to a large group of people in an open area or a large venue. Another problem for communication via technology would be if a projector broke during a presentation. This could make them lose concentration and not know what they were talking about.

Background noise from nearby work like an extension to a school could prevent children from learning anything as the noise could drown out what their teachers are trying to convey. Even small forms of background noise like a projector fan can be distracting enough to stop people from being focused.

Body language is the movement of the body that draws the attention of a person who you are talking to, though some people have bad body language when trying to convey information. An example of bad information is standing still with hands in your pockets, this is a barrier for communication because if you don’t look interesting then people may get distracted and look elsewhere.

Spelling and grammar errors cause a lot of problems when communicating with people. This is because if words are in the wrong order or something is spelled incorrectly then the information that is given could be incorrect or could give an incorrect meaning which could be misleading information.