young girl, growing up, I helped my mother take care of my four younger siblings. As my mom worked tirelessly to provide for our family I became the second mother. In her absence I was the responsible party, filling in and doing all the things that she usually did for us. This is when I learned to care for, love, and nurture others. This, paired with the watching all of the women in my family function in caregiver roles like nursing assistants, practical and registered nurses provided the foundation
hearing aids, loop systems, voice activated software, pictures and signs. Learning these have been useful because these are the barriers I may have to consider in my future career when dealing with service users. The problem I have is not being able to read a person quickly therefore I don't know the barriers that they may have straight away, to overcome this I will need to understand how to recognise a person with a barrier