9K views · 105 reactions | In 2018 we're featuring signs from the Core Vocabulary, which is the starting point for everyone learning Makaton. This week's sign is Kind. Keep it Core! We recommend using signs from the Core Vocabulary whenever possible... makaton.org/CoreVocabulary Join in with our Sign of the Week. Make your own video and share on social media using the hashtag #wetalkmakaton | The Makaton Charity | Facebook

5.2K views · 83 reactions | In 2018 we're featuring signs from the Core Vocabulary, which is the starting point for everyone learning Makaton. This week's sign is Different. Keep it Core! We recommend using signs from the Core Vocabulary whenever possible... makaton.org/CoreVocabulary Join in with our Sign of the Week. Make your own video and share on social media using the hashtag #wetalkmakaton | The Makaton Charity | Facebook

In 2018 we're featuring signs from the Core Vocabulary, which is the starting point for everyone learning Makaton. This week's sign is To Help. Keep it Core! We recommend using signs from the Core Vocabulary whenever possible... makaton.org/CoreVocabulary Join in with our Sign of the Week. Make and share your own video using the hashtag #wetalkmakaton to appear on our video wall on wetalkmakaton.org | The Makaton Charity

🤚🏻Learn Makaton signs with Parker 🤙🏻 When Parker was 1, we started using Makaton to help him communicate — and wow, what a journey it’s been! He’s 4 now and has a huge range of signs under his belt. It’s honestly amazing how much he can tell us with his hands — from asking for his favourite snacks to showing us how he feels. Makaton has given Parker a way to express himself long before he had words, and it’s made such a difference in how we connect with him (and how he connects with the worl

Over 100,000 children and adults use Makaton symbols and signs, either as their main method of communication or as a way to support speech. It’s particularly helpful for children and adults with communication and learning difficulties and those that support them. We know that Makaton can help children with developmental language disorder to communicate by combining signs, symbols and speech to help develop language skills, understand and be understood. You can hear our conversation with DLD spec

In 2018 we're featuring signs from the Core Vocabulary, which is the starting point for everyone learning Makaton. This week's sign is Outside. Keep it Core! We recommend using signs from the Core Vocabulary whenever possible... makaton.org/CoreVocabulary Join in with our Sign of the Week. Make your own video and share on social media using the hashtag #wetalkmakaton | The Makaton Charity

The theme for this week’s #Makaton topic video is FEELINGS & EMOTIONS. We’ve enlisted the help of fellow Makaton Charity Patron & all-round Makaton legend Dave Benson Phillips to join in with his wonderful facial expressions too 🤩 We know we are experiencing a very difficult time at the moment and might need some help expressing how we feeling. We’ve added in the concept of STRESSED (from Communication Link / BSL) as it’s a really useful one particularly for older children/teenagers & adults. H