TuX Report post Posted July 15, 2007 does anyone here use makaton or have child who uses makaton? staff at res.home am live in want to help am learn makaton [am non verbal most of the time,and have difficulty with language when verbal],but Am want to buy a signs book-or,find a website with all the signs on,so staff can teach am them,are there any books/websites with signs? only site could find with makaton signs was the something special site,but there are not many signs on there,and most are not good. no book shops have been to sell makaton signs books,if there is a makaton book available,can shops order them rather than use online? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smiley Report post Posted July 15, 2007 Hi Tux I use makaton at work - and used to use it as home with my son. Is the Something Special the Makaton site? Makaton is great - but the books etc, are quite expensive. I've only been able to order the resources online - or through the tutor who taught me how to use it. Do2learn is a great site for visual timetables etc, lots of free 'bits'.....not sure that that would help you though . Could the people suggesting you try it, have some things they could photocopy for you? That might be better (and cheeper!) while you get going. http://www.makaton.org/cgi-bin/ccp51/cp-app.cgi?pg=store Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viper Report post Posted July 15, 2007 Maybe this site can help you a bit. I'll keep looking for you. http://www.makaton.org/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viper Report post Posted July 15, 2007 Looks like smiley beat me to it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MichelleW Report post Posted July 15, 2007 (edited) The Something Special DVDs are the children's programme ( I think Nick Junior on sky play them - I can check) but they are available with several episodes on each DVD. I have found the series great - they are themed around a topic and presented by Justin in a very child friendly way, using makaton signing. Maybe a little basic for school age children, but great for pre-schoolers when it first becomes apparent that there is a speech and/or language and/or communication difficulty. I must say that I have learnt the " I can sing a rainbow" song in makaton now from watching the colours one. There was a second series of further themes. As for Makaton itself - I personally could not learn from books - I had to watch someone and turn myself around so I was in same position as them for me to learn the sign. So I got the makaton carers pack from the library which contained a video ( to buy the carers pack is very exphensive!) but you can get the pack through the library - they can phone around and put it on reserve if it is out to someone. Of course it had to go back after 2 months before I'd even got a quarter the way through - but there are means and ways of ensuring continued learning! Definitely worth while learning it and though some signs on Something special are slghtly different to core volcabulary, they are definity worth getting if you have got access to sky, or the series isn't running. The Something Special DVDs may be available to buy from Makaton website I think. And Makaton also do a Nursery Rhyme DVD too I believe. Edited July 15, 2007 by MichelleW Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zaman Report post Posted July 15, 2007 As others have already mentioned, you can get books from the website. But there are a lot of them for lots of different things. It might be worth looking into courses that teach it locally to you? I found a really good tutor that I went to once a week and bought the books from him. It helped me to learn from a tutor in the first place as it can take some doing to understand the movements etc from the books. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
av16 Report post Posted July 15, 2007 Hi, this may not help much but I found a website with basic phrases in many languages - including makaton. It's quite good because children talk and in the case of Makaton sign each word/phrase. Try this link and in the drop down menu choose Makaton. http://www.newburypark.redbridge.sch.uk/langofmonth/index.html It may get you started! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MichelleW Report post Posted July 16, 2007 Hi, this may not help much but I found a website with basic phrases in many languages - including makaton. It's quite good because children talk and in the case of Makaton sign each word/phrase. Try this link and in the drop down menu choose Makaton. http://www.newburypark.redbridge.sch.uk/langofmonth/index.html It may get you started! I couldn't get this to work - I clicked on Makaton from the drop down menu, but it gave me Turkish! Anyone having the same problem? My little one picked up the signs quite well - and it makes a big difference to me as I can now understand him better. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pumpkinpie Report post Posted July 16, 2007 MaKATON is brilliant, have you thought of contacting your local special schools or support groups , they sometimes have staff trained in makaton or have contacts who can help- some of whom maybe tutors. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MelowMeldrew Report post Posted July 16, 2007 Being deaf myself I didn't need Maketon, and neither did he, we gave him sign language instead, because it was his mother's first language, so it wasn't a case of which should we use.... The schools mainly refused to allow any sign of any type, gave him cards with pictures on, (Rather primitive !), His specialist school says they don't mind as long as he communicates, now they mirror the parents modus, he is improving, for years they would not listen, it took 6 years of total failure by them before they accepted we were right... It is important whatever manual means you use, to TALK as well, DON'T do either/or, it won't work and you run the risk of your child not bothering to talk. even deaf people insist on people speaking as well... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shortie Report post Posted July 16, 2007 does anyone here use makaton or have child who uses makaton? staff at res.home am live in want to help am learn makaton [am non verbal most of the time,and have difficulty with language when verbal],but Am want to buy a signs book-or,find a website with all the signs on,so staff can teach am them,are there any books/websites with signs? only site could find with makaton signs was the something special site,but there are not many signs on there,and most are not good. no book shops have been to sell makaton signs books,if there is a makaton book available,can shops order them rather than use online? Hi Tux,I have 2 CD-roms that have 200 makaton signs on,my 4yr old autistic princess has learnt it perfect so if you pm me i will gladly send them on to you!!Its a man actually showing you how to sign each word!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bullet Report post Posted July 16, 2007 I use Makaton with Tom and it's been really good at helping him understand and he tries to copy loads of signs now. I talk to him as well at the same time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites