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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.
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