Blog #1 : What is Communication?

• Infants learn the art of communication as soon as they are born. When they are hungry, wet, cold, tired or in pain, their mode of communicating their feelings is by crying. As they get older, children use gestures, and later language is added to their communication process. This process becomes much more important as they mature.
  
  

  But what is communication?  It is the interactive transference of shared meaning between intelligence or the activity of conveying information through the exchange of ideas, feelings, intentions, attitudes, expectations, perceptions or commands. This is how we transmit information from one person to another via different modes, be it verbal or non – verbal. Verbal may be either direct (person to person), or indirect. Non-verbal may be through posture, gestures, facial expressions, first impressions, sound effects, eye contact, direct contact or writings. So, for communication to take place there should be a message, a sender, a receiver and feedback. 
  
  

  
  

  Communication is a very important part of our everyday life. It is the essence of human interaction and learning. Therefore, it would be extremely hard to imagine a year, a week, or even a day where there is no communication.