Makaton signing is fun for all the children at Frant Nursery School in Frant, East Sussex, where the group includes two four-year-olds who have severe delays in speech development and mobility. Tracey Howes, chair of the village nursery, has taught the children signing and is now training the parents too. She said it has had an 'enormous' impact on the children - 'and all of it good'. The special needs children will be going on to the local infant school.
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