Emelie keeps the overview

Emelie and her teacher feeding the horses. Photos: © Martina Braun, 2020

Recognize facial expressions and read lips

On May 20, 2020, the Kaywaldschule support association published a thank you to us on its Facebook page. This was preceded by a donation of face shields for the children, young people and teachers.

Martina Braun, deren Tochter Emelie in der Kaywaldschule zur Schule geht, nahm Kontakt zu uns auf und …

For people with a hearing impairment, life is currently even more difficult because the masks eliminate lip-reading. The face shields enable these people to continue to participate in daily life.

The face shields were therefore used with great success in the horse yard outdoor class: "Working with them was much easier for everyone than with a fabric mask," she says.

In this respect, these did not only make sense when filling the feed baskets with hay for the horses at the Nordheim Riding Club (... the outside class of the Kaywald School ...), but they would also be worn during the entire stable work, Martina Braun comments. "So also when sweeping, dunging, feeding...".

Emelie's teacher, Mrs Höhn-Mizo, also thinks the face shields are great, because "then my glasses won't tarnish and they won't slip like the stupid mouthguards", says Emilie.

The fact that the shields can be put on and taken off by the children themselves - which does not always work with normal mouthguards due to motor deficits - is a great advantage. Above all, the teachers and carers would be able to recognise the faces and facial expressions of the hearing-impaired and/or autistic children very well and also read lips.

I'm sorry ...

Photo: anikolleshi on Unsplash, 2020; Grafik: Ingo H. Klett for © WEBER Packaging GmbH, 2020

“I'm sorry...!?”

Smooth business requires clear communication. That people understand each other. Be this through our language and/or the facial expressions or gestures of both persons. At the latest since the publication of Prof. Paul Watzlawick's literary bestseller we know.

You can't not communicate.

Because communication is behavior. And you understandably can't not behave. You always behave in some way. To something or someone.

Deaf people criticize mouth coverings

From deaf associations one learns in the meantime that the often quoted masks reaching over nose and mouth would make a reading of the lips and other facial expressions nearly impossible, yes a downright obstacle with the understanding would be.

This can only be confirmed by our employee responsible for corporate communications. He was last equipped for shopping at the bakery.

The bakery saleswoman looked at me questioningly. She hadn't understood me.

– Ingo H. Klett

Keeping a distance of one meter and fifty metres to the operating personnel, a plexiglass pane placed on the counter of the service counter as protection against accidental dripping and even provided with a textile nose-mouth cover, the friendly lady behind the service counter did not understand anything at all at first. If this happens umpteen times a day, it is very annoying for your staff and also for your customers.

As a former member of the rescue service Klett knows: There is no such thing as 100% safety from an infection via droplets or aerosols that have directly entered the mouth, nose or eyes. Neither with self-sewn nor with certified models for the health sector. He therefore prefers to talk about probabilities.

But if you want to equip your staff in consulting, sales and service with a 100% transparent, crystal-clear version, which also allows the interpretation of your own facial expressions, you should click on the black button right here ...