Makaton - anybody using this
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Topic: Makaton - anybody using this
Posted By: Joelle
Subject: Makaton - anybody using this
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 7:52am
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Hi, my little one is starting with a speech language therapist and I was wondering if anybody had anything on Makaton or uses it? ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: sarahm
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 8:12am
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I used to work in a kindergartern where we had a little boy with downs syndrome who attended. His parents and SLT used it with him, so we as staff did a course so we could use it too. It was great and a very easy system to use. The other children in the centre even picked up some of the signs and would use them too (we had a lot of children who had english as a second language) What was great about it was that he was encourgaed to try and use words as well as signs to communicate with us, slowly over time he was using less signs and more words which was a great achievement to see. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com">  
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 12:00pm
james has been doing this since he was two its great and his teacher is just lovey his talking has exploded from 20 words at 2 years old to over 200 words and almost 5 it relly help james just as a side not ella his teacher taught us a xmas song in sign last year james coulnt sing aword now he can almost sing it word for word aww i am soo pround of him good lock on your jounry its hard so if you need a ear ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: Joelle
Date Posted: 09 December 2009 at 7:57pm
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Thanks for the info it sounds great.
I was starting to use baby sign but said to the SLT that it was probably better that I start with Makaton and then we keep it to one sign language - I haven't been given any info yet so hopefully next week at our next appointment. Kaiha started saying mama at 6months but then for months on end nothing - then for a couple of days mama - then nothing again even his babbling went downhill. I haven't heard him say mama now for 2months and he doesn' use any other words at all although he has become more verbal. So hopefully Makaton will help  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 10 December 2009 at 6:30am
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james was the same he sung twikle twikle little star at 1 year then nothing but the sign is worked soo well for him i relly hope it works for u big hugs ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: MB1970
Date Posted: 30 April 2010 at 10:21pm
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Hiya,
*lurking* but wanted to say check out http://www.makaton.org.nz/ You can also order the "dictionaries"/handbooks directly from them so you can learn a few of the signs easily. Cheers MB |