Makaton: First UK airport training their staff to sign. Published. 8 March 2019. comments. 1 Comments. Image source, Getty Images. Image caption, The airport operates flights across the UK and Europe.

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. Staff said they felt the training was "really important".

Makaton is a language programme that combines speech, signs and symbols to give options for people to communicate. On completing the training, Chris commented: “The basic skills we have learnt ...

“We opened up our Makaton training to all of our employees giving them the opportunity to learn the basics, such as signs and symbols relating to our facilities, hotels and rides. We were overwhelmed ...

A CHILD with severe speech problems missed out on five months of support at school because of council delays in training teachers. The Local Government Ombudsman found the boy should have had ...

The center has licensed Makaton tutor to run the programme and to provide training and to certify the professionals. Let’s learn more about it. Makaton is a kind of language programme using ...

Ms Lewis added: "Jak has been here for four years and I've been working with him the whole time he's been here and he has completed the Makaton level one training with me." She said that since Jak ...

At the time of the award, the school had successfully trained 35 staff members at Level 1 and 23 staff members at Level 2, with the training facilitated by a Regional Makaton Tutor and in-house SaLT ...

A student at a Shropshire specialist college has won a prestigious national award for her work to promote Makaton signing - including on Strictly Come Dancing.

Staff learnt basic Makaton signs that will enable those delivering Bookbug sessions to integrate signing with some of the popular songs and rhymes. Bookbug with Makaton sessions will be launched ...