Makaton is the sign and symbol language used in Something Special. Makaton is designed to support spoken language – signs are used with speech, in spoken word order to help children and adults ...

Teach your child to communicate their needs using signs and symbols from Makaton and BSL as used in Something Special and Magic Hands. According to research from The Communication Trust, it is ...

Known by many as the father of the linguistics of American Sign Language, the late William C. Stokoe, Professor Emeritus at Gallaudet University, began publication of the quarterly journal Sign ...

Language, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Sep., 1975), pp. 696-719 (24 pages) Grammarians since Saussure have insisted that language symbols are arbitrary, though conventionalized, in form. Sign languages in general, ...