"Signed Stories is a lovely website. Not only do signs last longer than spoken words but children can watch the signed story again and again. This way children have more time to process information and then learn to use the signs themselves so giving them an early way of communication.

Once they understand key words and concepts they can start using these while their language skills develop to understand and use more complex sentence structures.

Signed Stories opens the world of books and fantasy to children who have difficulty processing language and also gives non-verbal children the means to retell the stories themselves."

Jeanne Dippenaar is an experienced speech and language therapist, who worked with Avril Webster to develop the Off We Go series of picture books for children with special educational needs. Jeanne also has experience using sign language systems to help children communicate.