26 May 2010

Musical Signs For Parenting Award

Rebecca Boulton, from Tamworth, who founded Musical Signers, has entered the 2010 Remote Worker Awards, in association with BT Business, and hopes to achieve national recognition for the deaf community if she wins.

Musical Signers started as a Baby Signing Company in 2005, when Rebecca wanted to take her baby daughter to classes. Although she quickly realized that she couldn’t afford classes, it also dawned on her that she was actually more qualified than the local teacher so she set up on her own. Musical signers

Five years on and the company has grown to six staff and teach Baby Signing, Signed Literacy and Deaf Awareness in many children’s centres, schools and nurseries, as well as offering a number of British Sign Language training courses accredited by Signature.

Rebecca entered The Babyworld Parentprenuer Award to highlight the challenges that she overcame to find her ideal job, working around her young family, and to encourage others to believe in themselves and strive to achieve their dreams. It is also a fantastic opportunity for Musical Signers, which employs a mix of deaf and hearing staff, to highlight the issue of Deaf Awareness and encourage more people to learn to sign, on both a local and a national level.

Musical Signers are unique in that they run nationally recognised qualifications for people working within the deaf community and they use sign language to support the learning of ALL children. This not only breaks down barriers between the deaf and hearing communities, but it can help improve literacy skills in hearing children too. Signed Literacy can help to aid comprehension, expand vocabulary, improve attention span, aid spelling and offer a multi-sensory learning experience.

Remote working has been key to developing the business as all staff members have very young children and are looking for a quality work life. Recently Musical Signers started franchising the business to offer their service to others.

Rebecca said: “We are an innovative business and have carved ourselves a positive reputation locally. This simply wouldn’t be possible without the benefits of remote working. The Parentprenuer Award is perfect for us because the business fits in so well around my own family and I have had the satisfaction of passing these benefits on to my staff and their families.”

Award winning website, Remote Employment, Google’s No 1 job site for flexible and home based jobs, launched The Remote Worker Awards in association with BT Business to highlight how home working and remote working benefits the British public and their working life.

Entries now open at www.remoteworkerawards.com.

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