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The Makaton Vocabulary: From Britain to the Antipodes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker*
Affiliation:
Psychiatry of Mental Handicap, St. Georges Hospital Medical School, London University, Makaton Vocabulary Development Project
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The Makaton Vocabulary was devised by the author over ten years ago. It began as a small piece of work in response to a clinical need and is now extensively used all over the U.K. with children and adults who have communication and language difficulties.

Surveys carried out over the past five years (Reid, Jones & Kiernan) into the use of signing and symbols in schools for children who are mentally handicapped throughout the U.K. have shown the following growth of the scheme.

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Research Article
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Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , November 1984 , pp. 8 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1984

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