Which technique is rewording a speaker's message to enhance understanding?

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Which technique is rewording a speaker's message to enhance understanding?

Paraphrasing is restating what someone has said in your own words to capture the same meaning. This helps you check you’ve understood correctly and gives the speaker a chance to confirm or correct any details. In skincare or facial massage, paraphrasing ensures you accurately grasp a client’s concerns, goals, and symptoms, which leads to clearer communication and safer, more effective treatment planning. Questioning involves asking questions to gather more information, not the act of restating in different words. Summarizing compresses the message into a brief overview, rather than rewording it in your own terms. Nonverbal communication covers body language and cues, which support understanding but don’t involve rephrasing the message.

Paraphrasing is restating what someone has said in your own words to capture the same meaning. This helps you check you’ve understood correctly and gives the speaker a chance to confirm or correct any details. In skincare or facial massage, paraphrasing ensures you accurately grasp a client’s concerns, goals, and symptoms, which leads to clearer communication and safer, more effective treatment planning.

Questioning involves asking questions to gather more information, not the act of restating in different words. Summarizing compresses the message into a brief overview, rather than rewording it in your own terms. Nonverbal communication covers body language and cues, which support understanding but don’t involve rephrasing the message.

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