1. Practice echoing (slow) with the following audio
2. Practice echoing (fast) with the following audio
- It’s the same audio as before but faster. Try to keep up.
Script
1
Good morning, Mrs. O’connell. I’m going to be your diabetes educator today. I know that they’d recently diagnosed you with type 2 diabetes and surely you have many questions. Discovering that we have a chronic incurable disease can be a bitter pill to swallow, but we’re here to help you as much as we can to control your blood sugar levels and keep you healthy, free of complications.
2
It’s very important that you understand the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes since your caregiver had told me that it wasn’t very clear to you. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, that’s to say that the immune system or defenses attack the body’s cells by mistake. While type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disease, meaning that, it affects metabolism or the ability the body has to break down the foods we ingest to produce energy.
3
In both types of diabetes the body doesn’t process glucose well, this is sugar. People with type 1 diabetes barely produce insulin while people with type 2 diabetes don’t respond very well to insulin, they don’t use it well or don’t produce sufficient insulin. This is the type of diabetes you have, Mrs. O’connell.