What are the features of non verbal communication?
Non verbal communication uses gestures such as a smile, a frown, a hand signal, a sigh, a head shake, an embrace, a hand wave, and others. Each signal has one or more meanings. If the girls are lined up on one side of a dance floor and the boys are lined up on the other side, the boys are told to walk across. The boys look at the girls. When a boy looks at a girl and she smiles at him, he asks her to dance. The features are that they involve quick signals that contain a lot of specific information that either saves or prevents a lot of talking. The girl’s smile said, “I am willing to dance with you.” If she had frowned, she would have said, “I am not willing to dance with you.” If she wants to dance with someone else, she does not waste her time talking to him while the guy she wants to dance with talks to someone else and he does not miss a chance to dance with another girl. It is important for social workers to be able to use body language. An abused child will not tell the social wo
