Retail and Leisure

In addition to general communication barriers, we may experience unique communication barriers when using professional services.  These include:

• Being ignored or talked about as if we are invisible
• Having our abilities underestimated or not being taken seriously
• Making assumptions that we cannot hear or understand what they are saying
• Not knowing how to communicate with us
• Pretending to understand what we are communicating
• Limiting our communication by only asking us yes and no questions
• Not giving us the time we need to communicate
• Noisy and dark environments where it is difficult to see our communication boards and devices or hear what people are saying