-- Sandra Valmary, mother of Celeste

Parents from all over the U.K. come to our programmes because they want to learn how to communicate with their baby at an early age, support their children's spoken language development and literacy skills and learn positive behaviour management techniques.

Signing helps them to do so in a relaxed yet focused way.

On our simple step-by-step programmes, we teach families how to use signs alongside speech in normal every-day activities to promote learning. Many progress to our accredited course Signing with Babies and Young Children which for some, is a stepping stone to a new career.

Sandra Valmary is the mother of 12 month-old Celeste. She uses French and sign with Celeste and her husband Neil, English and sign. The signs are a bridge to both languages as they are consistently the same, providing a kinaesthetic clue to the meaning of spoken French and English.
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