"I am part of the Makaton choir at Fleming Fulton," he told BBC News NI. "I thought it would be a good idea to collaborate with the Boys' Model school and teach them some songs in Makaton." ...

Makaton is a language programme that uses signs, symbols, facial expressions and speech. It’s often used by those who have difficulties communicating verbally, including many under-fives. For ...

Makaton is designed to support spoken language – the signs are used in spoken word order to help children and adults to communicate. Using signs can be useful for children who have no speech ...

A specialist further education college is challenging children and adults to learn the sign and symbol based language system, Makaton. A number of students at The National Star College in ...

Makaton was first developed in the 1970s by Margaret Walker MBE, Kathy Johnston and Tony Cornforth, speech and language therapists who all worked together at the Royal Association for Deaf people.

A woman with Down's syndrome who teaches Makaton has said it feels amazing to go back to her old school as a teacher. Eve McIvor, 24, teaches Year 8 pupils at St Mary's in Londonderry.

CBeebies Makaton episode: Boy with heart defect has incredible reaction to Rob Delaney's bedtime story ‘He has never been interested in bedtime stories before. Thank you for using his language’ ...

Strictly Come Dancing’s stars have been celebrated by sign language charities for using Makaton to communicate with hard of hearing or non-verbal viewers. Chris Ramsey, Saffron Barker, Emma ...

Mum enlists helps of celebrities to create AMAZING Silent Night video to raise awareness of language programme Makaton Naomi Owen enlisted the help of Jonathan Wilkes, Port Vale striker Tom Pope ...