How I get signing into practice (1) - It's Signsational!
Author: Deborah Green, Wendy Reed & Roz Angier
Magazine issue: Spring 11
Page numbers: 28-29
Date: 28 February 2011
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The speech and language therapy team for people with learning disabilities at Yourhealthcare found that, in spite of a rolling programme of training to encourage parents and carers to use sign in their own environments, they still lacked the confidence and skills to do this. They introduced an intensive course in a community facility that emphasised everyday chatting and interaction. In this article they share their experience of running it three times. Planning, preparation, structure and resources are described, with speech and language therapy assistants vital to the process and music proving particularly useful in both expected and unanticipated ways.
