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The Makaton Vocabulary Development Project was founded in 1976 by Margaret Walker, who worked in a voluntary capacity as director until her retirement in October 2008. The first Makaton training workshop was held in 1976 and supporting resources and further training courses were, and continue to be, developed.
"The Makaton Vocabulary: Using manual signs and graphic symbols to develop interpersonal communication", Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 6:1, 15-28, DOI: 10.1080/07434619012331275284 Walker, M & Armfield, I A (1987).
Makaton is used by over 100,000 adults and children as a means of communication
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Signalong is an alternative and augmentative key-word signing communication method used by those individuals with speech, language and communication needs. The Signalong methodology has been effectively used with individuals who have cognitive impairments, autism, Down's Syndrome, specific language impairment, multisensory impairment, and acquired neurological disorders that have negatively ...
First published in 1972 by Gustasen, Pfetzing, and Zawolkow, [1] SEE-II matches visual signs with the grammatical structure of English. Unlike ASL, which is a real language and has its own unique grammar system, SEE-II is intended to be an exact visual model of spoken English and allows children with hearing loss to access grammatically correct ...
Robert J. Hoffmeister is associate professor emeritus and former director of the Center for the Study of Communication & Deafness at Boston University. [1] He is most known for his book, Journey into the Deaf World. He is also known for supporting the American deaf community and deaf education.
Cued speech is a visual system of communication used with and among deaf or hard-of-hearing people. It is a phonemic-based system which makes traditionally spoken languages accessible by using a small number of handshapes, known as cues (representing consonants), in different locations near the mouth (representing vowels) to convey spoken language in a visual format.