A TOWN's bid to become sign language friendly is on track to become the UK's second Makaton friendly town ahead of the Tour de Yorkshire later this year. In January, Bedale announced it would attempt ...

Teach your child to communicate their needs using signs and symbols from Makaton and BSL as used in Something Special and Magic Hands. According to research from The Communication Trust, it is ...

A COMMUNICATION scheme that might be used nationally, started with an idea from a Southend firefighter. Michael Freed, who works on Southend Watch, uses Makaton - a simplified form of sign language ...

A specialist further education college is challenging children and adults to learn the sign and symbol based language system, Makaton. A number of students at The National Star College in Ullenwood ...

Being a teenager is never easy and neither is being the parent of a teenager. But for Luc Lederle, 16, and his parents Carl and Non it is harder. Luc has autism and is non-verbal. Not being able to ...

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