Makaton is a new program being piloted at Lifestart Eastwood. The program is designed to provide opportunities for parents, carers and children to learn and use Makaton key word signing in everyday play situations. Parents and carers attend weekly small group sessions and there are also opportunities for these families to attend a Makaton Basic signing workshop and have one-to-one support to use signing in daily activities at home, childcare and pre-school settings. The program is running this term and being taken by Speech Pathologist and Makaton specialist Michelle Hughes supported by Lifestart staff. The Makaton program will also run at other Lifestart centres - contact your local centre for more detail.

Lifestart Eastwood would like to thank Dank’s Trust for their generous financial support in making this program possible.