Communication involves transmitting information, ideas, or feelings from one person to another through various means such as speech, gestures, pictures, written language, and other ways. Communication requires a message to be shared and a means of conveying it to others. The primary senses used for communication are sight and hearing, but other senses such as touch can also enable communication as demonstrated by Helen Keller who was able to communicate despite being blind, deaf and mute.

1. Communication means “transmitting information, ideas, or a feeling from one person to another.” If you
tell someone what you think or want, you are transferring that information from your mind to his. When
you talk something over with a friend, you and he are trading ideas. This is communication by speech. It
is the earliest and still the most important way people communicate. But it is by no means the only way.
We communicate also by gesture, a look, a picture, by written and printed language, and in many other
ways.
The word “communicate” comes from the Latin word Communicare , which means to “share”
or to “make common.” Communication requires a message (the idea you want to communicate) and a
means of giving it to someone else.
The chief means of communication are the brain and the sense. Human beings use mainly the
sense of seeing and hearing. But they may use other senses too. People who cannot see or hear, like
Hellen Keller, who was blind, deaf, and mute, sometimes learn to communicate by the sense of touch.
Blind people read by touching raised letters with their finger tips. People who are deaf –mutes but not
blind have a special hand language. They spell words with finger movements.