Product review: Cath Smith BSL Flashcards

Co-Sign Communications, February 2016
Available from Amazon
Ages: 0 to 25

Reviewed by Kerry, mum to Reece (10), Matthew (10), who has a profound hearing loss, and Joshua (7).

Matthew, Reece and Joshua

“Cath Smith has recently launched some new flashcards, covering various topics. I purchased three of them on Kindle: feelings and emotions, house and home and positive behaviour and they’re amazing! Each set of flashcards is in full colour, easy to understand and the design is suitable for old and young alike. There are various topics you can choose from and I’ll definitely be buying more as my sons all love them.

These are so useful with the children I work with and my family at home. Because of the format, children love flicking through the colourful pictures on the iPad rather than black and white pictures in a book.

I would suggest the flashcards as a great way of helping anyone who is learning British Sign Language (BSL) as it can be done in bitesize chunks and they are a great point of reference. Each one comes with an explanation as to how important facial expressions are, and it gives you a fingerspelling chart too.”