Home / Healthcare & Medicine / Nursing / Improving Health Assessments for People with an Intellectual Disability / Overcoming challenges: Developing rapport and making a connection
Overcoming challenges: Developing rapport and making a connection
This video explores overcoming challenges to communicating with a person with an intellectual disability: Developing rapport and making a connection
Thinking about developing rapport with a person with an intellectual disability, it can be useful to break up your contact with them into different stages.
- Before the appointment
- Meeting the person
- During the appointment
Reflect on your current practice.
Think about how you currently develop a rapport or make a connection with a person with an intellectual disability during each of these stages.
- What could you do differently to develop better rapport in the future?
- Share any techniques that you use to develop rapport and explain why you find these useful.
This article is from the online course:
Improving Health Assessments for People with an Intellectual Disability
Created by
This article is from the free online
Improving Health Assessments for People with an Intellectual Disability
Reach your personal and professional goals
Unlock access to hundreds of expert online courses and degrees from top universities and educators to gain accredited qualifications and professional CV-building certificates.
Join over 18 million learners to launch, switch or build upon your career, all at your own pace, across a wide range of topic areas.
