Talk:Makaton

Hello my name is Kathy. I made this page. It was a bit of an off-the-cuff effort (that is, it was written quickly with not as much care as might be best). I wrote it and wrote it quickly because I didn't like the idea that the Simple English Wiki hadn't got a Makaton article. Makaton is used so much for primary school age children with special needs and Something Special is very very well known in the uk. I a not sure my sentences are very wikipedia, even for simple English, nor easy to edit up to a better article. Having looked back at the main English Wikipedia article it might be better to use a lot more of that article instead of my words. I would be grateful to know what anyone else thinks. Kathybramley (talk) 08:10, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Carer or caretaker?

I changed back to carer to describe people who look after, educate or assist people with special needs. A caretaker is someone who sweeps the building in British English. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carer - links to caregiver article. Australian and NZ and British English use "carer". It is also only people not paid. Teachers are not carers in that article. I think I might change the paragraph (block of writing with the word 'carer' in) again. Kathybramley (talk) 08:18, 1 April 2011 (UTC) http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carer - I should've searched on simple! 08:20, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

I agree with the use of the British English definition for carer. No need to mix British English and American English definitions, as this would only confuse. I also added category "disability", as the category includes several ways of overcoming "disability" --Bärliner (talk) 08:40, 1 April 2011 (UTC)