...Communication Breakdown: The Role of Interagency Communication in the Academic Achievement of Foster Youth Farrah Mitchell Ashford University Chapter 1: Background Context Recent research has made clear that children in foster care represent one of the most vulnerable populations in public education. Though there have been few national studies studying the overall achievement of foster youth, various state and local investigations invariably reveal a picture of personal struggle, over- or under-identified disabilities, developmental delays, absenteeism, and chronic underperformance relative to peers who are not in foster care. In Washington state, foster children scored 15 to 20 percentile points below their peers on standardized state tests, were twice as likely to repeat a grade as their peers, and 27 percent less likely to complete high school in four years (Schubert, 2001). Lower test scores are sometimes ascribed to the high mobility of foster youth, which prevents them from studying for long with any single teacher. However, some differences in achievement test scores predate entry into foster care (National Working Group, 2011), indicating that past trauma, developmental delays, or disabilities maybe as or more responsible for the academic underachievement of foster youth as frequent displacement. Compared to the mainstream population, foster youth are much more likely to enter special education. Vacca (2008) found that “students in foster care also are enrolled...
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...Communication breakdown The development of technology has changed people’s life for years. As Wanda Wright points out in his article,” Communication breakdown”, published in the London Telegraph in 2011, the improvement of communication media has made many negative effects to communication of young people. The aim of this essay is to critically response to the author’s main arguments. In “Communication breakdown”, Wright examines some problems when people use too much modern communication medium. The author proposes that if young people are lack of reading long texts, they will not able to improve their critical thinking and get the limit connection to English language culture. Next, he asserts that using modern communication devices which missing face to face such as texting or social media will damage verbal and social skills of young generation. The author presents an illogical argument that the young cannot read long texts so they lack some important parts of English culture and critical thinking. Another problem with his evidence is from an actor, not an expert. Thus, the information that he gave was just a personal opinion. Although there are a lot of information in short texts but students were taught to read as the most important skill at school. As a result, reading short form of text is not affect to the academic skill of the young people. There are several problems with the author’s idea that modern communication will harm...
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...Week 1 Assessment – Communication Breakdown Patricia Maestas Stevens-Henager College HRM-410 – Conflict Resolution in the Workplace 03-15-14 Ryan Tew Week 1 Assessment – Communication Breakdown QUESTIONS 1. Analyze what filters were in place to block effective communication between the Hospital administrators, medical staff, and affected patients. Communication is a learned skill. There was no communication at all between the Hospital administrators, medical staff, and affected patients at first. The administrators and medical staff seemed to panic. Strong emotions can either prevent people from hearing what a speaker has to say or make them too susceptible to the speaker’s point of view. Attitudes can be a barrier to communication in much the same way as emotions. I think the administrators were very upset and could not believe that this problem actually happened. Duke administrators were slow to notify the nearly 3,700 surgical patients who may have had contact with the improperly cleaned surgical instruments. This was definitely a part of nonverbal communication. Duke should have made more information available sooner and notified the patients immediately. When the crisis team got involved it seems like the information went out more quickly. 2. Evaluate how the original problem could have been intercepted before it became a Health care crisis. Duke employees should have never assumed the drums were surplus stock, and return them to the original...
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...getting done? “There has to be a communication breakdown.” Most of the time it seems some of the work gets done and other work seems to get ignored. Most of the time, it seems that the communication gets broken down and relayed in portions instead of the full message. This of course is when you are dealing with larger companies. Smaller companies tend to have better communication. I have been in business with both small and large businesses, so I have had the pleasure of experiencing both sides. This paper will discuss the communication breakdown between the boss and the subordinates’ in both large and small businesses. Problem: Most workers in the business world have to multi-task, in order to function at their job. Many times, when workers multi-task they tend to forget or things happen to get lost in the shuffle. Many workers want to be the go too guy or gal, that seems to have all the right answers and gets the job done. All this initiative can sometimes lead to communication breakdown. Before we begin to discuss this subject, lets’ also remember; in a large company when an order is given from the president in a large company it must go through a world of supervisors before it reaches the worker who will do the job. Now in a smaller company, you might have 2 supervisors who receive the order before it reaches the worker. This of course translates into a lesser chance of communication breakdown. Background: Communication is the foundation for everything...
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...Communication Breakdown It was a day like any other. Dad had just brought breakfast back to the family. I especially remember how fresh the carrots tasted. We’ve just moved to a new place, just south of the lake where my brother and I learned to swim. Although our old home was destroyed unexpectedly by a bunch of men in hats, we were adjusting well to our new place. The grass was soft and the hills were lightly capped with white snow. It was in between winter and spring, my favorite time of the year. Jimmy and I were on our way to the pasture to find hay for our beds. Suddenly, I saw a quick flash and heard a crisp crack! Oh no, not again. “Jimmy run, go home!” I screamed to my little brother as I fell to the ground. Skeptically, my brother ran south. I lay on the ground with tears in my eyes. A sharp pain overcomes my body as I concentrate on breathing. I think back on all the times in my life that I’ve been scared or hurt. This is definitely the worst thing that has ever happened to me. I start to worry that I may not make it out of this jam alive, when I see a human in an orange vest triumphantly marching towards me. Thinking quickly, and bravely I might add, I use all my might to force myself up off of the ground. As the man in the orange vest raises his hunting tool at me, I dart off behind two large oak trees. One shot! Two shots! Good thing this guy is really a lousy shot. I run and I run fast, but before I do I stare the man right in the eyes. If he could...
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...working effectively as a team. When working as a team the best thing that works is communication, performance, reliability, constructively, having these item listed as a team that works. What doesn't? When a team doesn’t work usually all or some of the items listed above. That’s why it it very important to follow that guidance that are places on your team until completion. What do you do when a communication breakdown occurs within a team? There are several things that you can do when a communication breakdown occurs within a team. Breakdown often happens when someone has false assumptions about what someone is or is not supporting a team. So confirming that everyone is on the same page is on way to clear up any misunderstand standings within a team. Write a communication plan for your group that includes ways to prevent communication breakdowns, and ways to fix communication breakdowns when they occur. Fortunately there are numerous things that can do to prevent breakdowns ways to fix communication breakdowns when they occur. One thing that you can do Be sure to include examples of teams where communication breakdowns occurred, identify where, when and how the breakdown happened, and why. List possible ways the communication breakdown could have been prevented or fixed. If the solution is given in your example, evaluate the solution. Would your communication plan need to change if you were working with a culturally diverse team? Why or why...
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...Taking what you've learned from the readings and videos this week, write a 3-5 page paper using APA style and formatting to include a title page, abstract, and bibliography. Research ways to effectively communicate within a team. What works? What doesn't? What do you do when a communication breakdown occurs within a team? Write a communication plan for your group that includes ways to prevent communication breakdowns, and ways to fix communication breakdowns when they occur. Be sure to include examples of teams where communication breakdowns occurred, identify where, when and how the breakdown happened, and why. List possible ways the communication breakdown could have been prevented or fixed. If the solution is given in your example, evaluate the solution. Would your communication plan need to change if you were working with a culturally diverse team? Why or why not? Also, share your experiences about two different work groups--one effective and one ineffective in the areas noted below. If you don’t have any or much experience with groups at work, you can instead analyze other types of groups in which you’ve been a member, such as a club, church group, sports team, etc. a. Describe each group with regard to an overview of the members, their positions/roles, gender, ages, and any other factors you think will help us understand the makeup of the group. Please do not share names. b. Describe the purpose of each group with regard to what it did. What tasks did...
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...The Impact of Cultural Communication Barbara E Wilson January 5, 2016 COM-223 Deena Shehata, The Impact of Intercultural Communication Case Study One Sweden/China Sweden is the Parent Company to China which is one of many Subsidiary Companies around the world, in which they provide high quality products worldwide. They easily communicate problems, they prefer to use a project team to solve problems that arise, and for major projects they involve all departments. (Liu, 2010) The Sweden management style is known for their high standards, to where China is more flexible looking only to the outcome. The main issue for the company is the tremendous cultural gap due to the way the subsidiary company in China is managed. China Chinas way of communication is more a routine there is no personal initiatives. When there is a problem it is reported to a superior then the superior makes the decision on how to solve the problem. Meanwhile, the subordinate wait for official orders. The only time that a problem is handled without notification to a superior is when it is an emergency and there is no time to wait. As for the context of communication, understanding, as well as relationships amongst the people is the high and low context. The high context culture individuals are usually deeply involved with each other however, the relationships between them is complicated especially when it involves the work place. Keep in mind that communication between individuals in...
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...Managerial Communication INterview Paper Managerial Communication University of Phoenix COM/350 Organizational Communications Vandye Forrester February 18, 2009 Managerial Communication Interview Paper Communication is best described as the imparting or interchanging of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing or signs. (Dictionary.com). Communication is the corner stone of today’s organization. Communication has made many companies successful and poor communication has destroyed many organizations. The purpose of this paper is to describe the common breakdown of communication within an organization. I will discuss the internal process breakdowns, decision making breakdowns and breakdown in communication among the organizations leadership team. Communication Breakdowns in Internal Politics Internal Politics Organizations are successful for different reasons but organizations that suffer do to some sort of dysfunction in the experience of the Director I interviewed was due to poor organizational performance is not the lack of business knowledge, but rather internal politics. Mark Lipe states in his online blog that organizations can develop bad internal politics and unproductive work habits which will eventually lead to declining performance. My research agrees with this statement, although larger organizations are more susceptible to the breakdown of communication, the development...
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...------------------------------------------------- Avoid A Communication Breakdown Here are some simple rules to follow to avoid a communication breakdown in your marriage: Be Considerate of Your Mate's Feelings When you put your spouse's feelings first then you are sending a loud clear message that you respect them and you want to fix any communication breakdown that may exist between the two of you. Unfortunately, most married couples do not do this; so instead of getting disappointed or angry when your spouse doesn’t automatically meet your needs, try to understand where he or she is coming from first then you can share your issues with them. You may need to involve a professional counselor or marriage coach to help you through some of the more difficult issues. If that is the case with you, don't run from this help; embrace it and keep an open mind as you seek a good solution to your communication issues. Have A Well-Thought Out Plan to Discuss Tough Topics When there is a communication breakdown between spouses, marriage can get pretty nasty and very challenging. When it comes to talking about sensitive subjects like, in-laws, money, children and other similar things, you have to be very delicate and choose your words very carefully. Before you begin a conversation with your mate about something that you know is a very sensitive topic for them, you need to think through what you are going to say and how to say it. You must plan these conversations very carefully...
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...Effective Team Communication Lawrence Stephens Fiona McKnight Barrington Lemon Stanley Allen Michael Miller MGT/311 February 10, 2013 Dr. Chris Mendoza Abstract Effective team communication is a requirement for the daily and individual success’s of any organization. Team’s communication, just as all other communication will affect the outcome of a given set of events. Team communication consists of three types of communication, verbal, non-verbal and visual. Importance Communication is an important part of an effective team because it provides the bond between the team members and allows all members to know exactly what is going on and to also convey who is doing what to get the job done. Communication is the exchange of information between one individual to another. However, effective communication occurs only if the receiver accurately understands the information from the sender. Therefore, when it comes to team communication, it is important to have open and honest communication in order for the team to be successful Illustration The video illustrated the three most common forms of face to face communication used in a restaurant or...
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...This document is prepared on the critical analysis and evaluation of breakdown structures done in the Human Resource Internet Integration (HRII) project. This project is a software development project which was outsourced and carried out by Valley Data Programming Group (VDPG). The main objective of the project was to analyses the requirement, design, implement and maintain the software Human Resource online data in order to serve the requirement of the California State University of Sacramento. This project includes a system requirement analysis, project management plan, software requirement generation, design, implementation, system testing and acceptance testing. Therefore, the critical analysis will begin with the background information of the project. In addition, a theoretical frame work has been prepared for the type breakdown structures that are carried out in the project. Moreover, to further critically analyze and draw conclusions of breakdown structures, tables, charts and figures has been used. Finally, conclusions are drawn based in the critical analysis conducted for the purpose gathering information in a concise manner. The table 1 below presents the general information of HRII. Table 1.0 Project background information table (Source: Adapted from Project Management Dec 2014, PMI 2013, p. 19) A project is a sophisticated undertakings that involves unique set of tasks and activities that are conducted within sets of limits to meet the objectives that are defined...
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...pre-central gyrus was also involved and damage possibly extends to the lateral fissure and subcortical structures. This has resulted in a right-sided hemiplegia affecting her upper limb primarily. No preceding significant medical history. Ruby has previously spent 2 weeks in a specialist stroke unit and then 3 months in a rehabilitation unit during which she received treatment from physio, OT and speech pathology. Include client demographic information; include information about previous intervention details social history, premorbid level of function, and any other relevant medical or allied health intervention details to date. Language Assessment Ruby’s communication abilities were assessed in the areas of conversation, story telling, verbal naming, reading aloud and also repetition. Ruby’s communication impairment was assessed using both informal procedures such as a conversational sample and formal tools and procedures including the CAT: Comprehensive Aphasia Test (Swinburn, Porter & Howard, 2006), Pyramids and Palm Trees (Howard and Patterson,...
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...Purpose: This procedure is to enable breakdown on information communication technology (ICT) are attended to and be rectified in timely manner in order to minimise delay in communication and processing of works. Scope: This procedure is applicable to all types of ICT which include, - computer server; - computer hardware; - computer software; - computer network (wireless/ local area network (LAN)); - internet system; - email system; - PABX/ telephone system; - fax machine; - photocopy machine; - printers (associated with photocopy machine); - scanner (associated with photocopy machine). 1.0 Reporting ICT Breakdown 1.1 Whenever there is breakdown encountered to any of the ICT in the office, the staff in charge shall complete the ICT Breakdown Report which to include clearly the ICT Name, Model No./ Serial No., Location, Breakdown Date and Time, Nature of Breakdown and refer by faxing/ handing over as soon as possible to the following personnel authorised to attend to the breakdown. 1. Refer to IT Technician for breakdown of, - computer hardware; - computer software; - computer network (wireless/ local area network (LAN)); - internet system; - email system; 1.1.2 Refer to Admin Manager for breakdown of, - PABX system/ telephone system; - fax machine; - photocopy machine; - printers (associated with photocopy machine); - scanner...
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...The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is known as the “foundation” of the project (Mathis, 2008). The WBS helps break down the complex tasks into progressively smaller pieces. Basically a $100,000 could be made to look like a bunch of $5000-$10,000 projects. This activity has the scope of most departments in the organization; the WBS assists in coordination and communication with the different departments. What the WBS does best is provide visibility and awareness into any project. This essentially translates into the project teams and sponsors having a good view on the schedule estimates, and also to effectively manage the schedule to ensure that the project gets completed on time. The WBS should be designed with consideration for its eventual uses. The WBS design should try to achieve certain goals: • Be compatible with how the work will be done and how costs and schedules will be managed, • Give visibility to important or risky work efforts, • Allow mapping of requirements, plans, testing, and deliverables, • Foster clear ownership by managers and task leaders, • Provide data for performance measurement and historical databases, and • Make sense to the workers and accountants (Chapman, 2004). The activity of creating a project plans ensures that the project team has given enough though to all the key areas, and is well prepared to execute the project, thus enabling complex tasks to be broken down and managed in an effective manner. From a communication perspective...
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