What Makes up Makaton?
Makaton is divided into two main parts: ‘The Makaton Core Vocabulary’ and ‘Makaton Resource Vocabulary’. The former are signs and symbols that have been recognised as ‘essential concepts for everyday needs’. This was then updated in 1996 to reflect a modern multi-cultural society. The latter was identified in the 1980s as signs and symbols that cover a huge range of additional needs of Makaton users. These include various social, educational and economic topics and currently total over 7000 words and concepts. Copyright Issues Makaton is run by the MVDP (Makaton Vocabulary Development Project) which is a relatively small charity that needs to secure funds. It does this is by copyrighting Makaton and using the funds generated from the copyright to further the Project. It does, however, restrict the use of Makaton pictograms (used to as a teaching aid). It is not possible to place any graphics on this website, or to distribute the pictograms to other people. However, it is allowable to u
