28/08/2024
Our wonderful sing and sign group at the college where I work part time.
Today is Makaton International Awareness Day! But what is Makaton, and how do we use it at Ruskin Mill Trust?
Makaton is a communication programme that combines signs, symbols and speech to empower anyone living with learning or communication difficulties to understand and be understood. A number of the schools and colleges in Ruskin Mill Trust use Makaton to support the students to communicate with each other and staff.
Makaton opens up communication for many people in our communities, and provides an additional means of communication for others who wouldn’t normally use signing or visual support in their own communication. In schools and colleges around the Trust, we use Makaton as part of a staff and student ‘Sing and Sign’ choir, we have a ‘sign of the week’, we also have regular signing training for staff to develop their signing skills too, amongst many other signing initiatives.
Visit the Makaton Charity website www.makaton.org to find out more about the impact Makaton has on Makaton Users, their families and support networks.
