The joys of signing!!!

Bit of background - Mummy McC did her Year 10 work experience in 1998 at a Special Needs Nursery at around the time that signing was being used for all children with Special Needs and not just those with difficulty hearing.  Mummy McC loved the signing and how much the children managed to thrive with it and studied it further after her work experience was over.


Mummy McC decided that she would use Makaton with McC 1 and when he was only 7 months old he could sign milk, nappy, hungry and tired - clever McC 1!


Mummy McC learnt more Makaton and by the time McC 2 came along, Mummy McC had it cracked!!!  McC 2 decided signing was great and would sign conversations before he was 2 (he forgot to do the speaking bit tho!!!)


McC 3 had a turn at signing too and she loves Mr Tumble!!!  As does Mummy McC, but Dave Benson Phillips is great at Makaton too!!!


McC 4 is a natural - signing comes so easy to him!  Signing from a young age and sneaking into Sing and Sign classes!!!  He loved Jessie so much and dragged along a few friends, so a wonderful Sing and Sign teacher, Nicki Reeson, created an over 18 months class for McC 4 to attend!!!  He LOVED it, he sang all the songs and new the majority of the signs and just couldn't wait each week until it was our class.  He still has the certificate of graduating from the class!!!  Now McC 4 signs nursery rhymes each week at Nursery and he's fab at that too!!!

I've also taught a few mindees some signing too, but the most amazing results came from the same Sing and Sign classes - Nicki managed to encourage a young boy of limited communication skills to become verbal and confident!!!

Click on this website - I cannot recommend this class and this teacher enough, she's amazing, she encourages all the children and teaches the children and parents excellent communication skills!!!  Go see if you can attend a class!!!

http://www.singandsign.com/classes/classes-near-you/warrington

Though my children are older, I still sign regularly - signing is just IN me!!! x