
28/08/2025
🌟 It’s Makaton Awareness Day! 🌟
💡 Did you know that more than 100,000 people use Makaton every day to help them communicate? It’s an amazing way of combining speech with signs and symbols so that everyone has the chance to be understood.
At ivolve, we celebrate this through our very own Makaton Monday. Every Monday, our PBS team share a new Makaton word of the week on our colleague intranet, Connect - with videos of our amazing teams demonstrating how to do it.
This year's theme, guided by The Makaton Charity, is Friendship and how Makaton helps build connections between people of all ages and abilities. We've shared the Makaton sign for Friend below. Why not have a go yourself today! 🤝
It’s fun, it’s inclusive, and it helps us make sure every voice is heard. 👐💛