Welcome to Jemms

Joy’s Education, Makaton & Mentoring Services

I am a highly qualified Specialist Makaton Tutor with over 35 years experience that offers all the official Makaton courses with online or face to face options, delivering workshops for the Makaton charity. The training I provide is delivered in a relaxed, fun but very professional and passionate way by a licensed tutor. I have experience working within a Speech and Language Base, in main stream schools, SEN schools, SEN nurseries, Specialist and alternative settings and residential homes helping to develop communication skills with children and adults with complex needs, speech and Language delay, Autism, Down Syndrome, HDHD, Worster Drought syndrome, Cerebral palsy and processing difficulties.

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Trusted by these clients and more

Joy and Nikki are a wonderful tutors. A wonderful day learning Makaton - inspired by both of you! Really looking to continuing my Makaton journey!

— Wendy Hagland

Joy and I collaborated on a project for young people. She was an asset to the team: kind, patient and a fountain of knowledge!

— Natalia Lewis

I can’t recommend Joy enough! I completed my levels 2,3 and 4 with Joy online. She was very supportive throughout the course and even now a few years later!

— Tracey King

Makaton is a unique multimodal language programme that uses symbols, signs and speech to enable people to communicate. It supports the development of essential communication skills such as attention and listening, comprehension, memory, recall, organisation of language and expression and social interaction.

Makaton is extremely flexible as it can be personalised to an individual's needs and used at a level suitable for them. Today over 100,000 children and adults, use Makaton symbols and signs. Most people start using Makaton as children then naturally stop using the signs and symbols as they no longer need them. However, some people will need to use Makaton for their whole lives.

What is Makaton?