Following on from the success of the “50 Mums” video and their October “Greatest Showman” video, we were thrilled to work in association with our friends at the DS Charity #WouldntChangeAThing once more. This time however, the project was in association with ITV’s This Morning and included teaching Phillip Schofield, Rochelle Humes and all the…
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Here’s another classic festive tune as our next #Makaton #SingingHands #CarpoolKaraoke – this time by the KIng himself, Elvis Presley. 2 Elvis Wigs? Check. 2 pairs of Elvis glasses? Check. Lip curl? Check. Pair of warbling puppets? Check. This is a nice slow song to sign along to – bear in mind we are signing…
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We’re sooooo excited! It’s nearly December and we’re gearing up for Christmas!. We LOVE this song by Barry Manilow – it’s probably one of the best Christmas songs that most people have never heard……until now! And it’s even better to sign with Makaton too – there’s great festive lyrics and core concepts in here, there’s…
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We were delighted to hear that our friend Rob Delaney was going to be reading and signing the first ever Cbeebies Bedtime Story with Makaton. Rob learned to sign to help his son, Henry, to communicate when he had a tracheostomy following treatment for a brain tumour. Rob’s personal experience and passion for Makaton really…
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Such a great song for our next Carpool Karaoke called One Call Away by Charlie Puth. We love this song not just because of it’s great lyrics / message but also because it has a lovely rhythm and pace for signing. Please see the explanation of signs below the video: Here are a few guidance…
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This Carpool Karaoke is only available here on our blog – for copyright reasons, the owners have decided it can’t be shown on YouTube directly. But feel free to watch away here! We’d bought the Beatles wigs ages ago in a vain effort to try and look like Paul and John from the Beatles but…
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To tie-in with the launch of the latest #wouldntchangeathing awareness video, here is one of the tuition videos we prepared to help this charity create another viral sensation for #WorldDownSyndromeAwarenessMonth this October! The group voted and chose #TIGHTROPE from The Greatest Showmen for their follow-up project as they felt the lyrics struck a chord with…
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You’d have to have been living under a rock not to have heard this #earworm in 2018! So it would be fair to say this is our current fave tune – no pun intended! Today we were joined by fellow Makaton Charity tutors Jane, Amanda & Nicola at our event in Birmingham so here are…
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(Sept 2018) To celebrate our 15th birthday and to have an official ‘launch’ of our Singing Hands Goes Pop DVD – we hosted our first ever Pop Party at the fabulous Langdon Down Theatre in Teddington, home of the DSA. We had 120 guests from local disability groups aged from 16 years upwards – coming…
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For Organ Donation Week this year, we have released a brand new video aiming to get families across the UK talking about organ donation and sharing their wishes with their loved ones. The video, which includes children, families and staff from Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital (GOSH) features patients in all stages of the transplant…
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