Name: Makaton Signing for Babies and Families - Arnold Library - Family Learning
Start: 2024-04-17T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-22T10:30:00+01:00
Location: Arnold Library

Makaton Signing for Babies and Families - Arnold Library - Family Learning

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About this Event
Key details

Date: 17 April - 22 May 2024
Sessions: Wednesdays: 10:30am - 11:30am
No. sessions: 6
Venue: Arnold Library, Nottingham
For ages: 19+
Group size: 5 - 16
Cost: FREE - £18

About this course

Sessions are designed for you and your child to have fun and learn together.

Makaton is a communication system that uses speaking, signing and symbols. Before children speak they use gestures, pointing and facial expressions to communicate with us. Makaton helps to develop those natural skills.

The course is a fun and easy way to learn to sign with your baby. Signing while speaking has been shown to encourage the development of communication and language skills. It can help reduce frustrations and help you to understand your baby needs and wants.

Makaton Signing for Babies is provided as a series of sessions for you and your baby. Together you will learn up to 100 signs and have fun practising them in songs, games and activities.

Why not have a go and enjoy the benefits of signing with your baby.

Content:

Flexible, fun sessions
Training designed to encourage development of communication and language skills
Learn 100 signs (and symbols) specifically selected for use with babies/toddlers
Use signs and symbols in songs, games and activities

What will be covered on the course?

You will learn approximately 100 signs and symbols using songs, games and activities.

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?

How to use Makaton to encourage the development of communication and language skills in babies and toddlers.

What skills or knowledge do learners already need to have to attend the course?

Nothing.

Learners should bring:

A blanket/mat to sit on
Bubbles to blow. Small toy bus and cuddly rabbit toy.
Drink and snack for baby and self

Books that we use for signing are:

The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr (week 1)
Maisy’s Bedtime by Lucie Cousins (week 2)
When We Went to the Park by Shirley Hughes (week 3)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Shirley Hughes (week 4)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (week 5)
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell (week 6)

Title:  All around me : a first book of childhood

Author:  Hughes, Shirley, 1927-

Title:  My first Makaton symbols and signs book

Author:  Pollard, Tom. 419 (shelf number)

Website of the Makaton Charity: Makaton.org

There are 8 child and 8 adult places

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas: