Makaton guide for welcoming visitors to heritage sites

This guide will help you to learn some Makaton signs for welcoming people, showing what you have on your site and communicating things such as where the toilets and cafe are.

By learning a few signs and supporting them with symbols you will be able to welcome groups that use Makaton onto your site. This will demonstrate that you have thought about Makaton users in advance enabling you to communicate directly, rather than through support staff, parents or carers.

Makaton uses signs (gestures), symbols (pictures) and speech, to help people communicate. It is used by both children and adults who experience difficulties communicating effectively or meaningfully by speech alone.

If you would like to develop your Makaton skills, look out for training in your area

www.makaton.org/findtraining

You can also download and purchase resources from the Makaton website

www.makaton.org/shop

This resource has been produced with the support of The Makaton Charity