See Hear - Series 28 - Episode 22

MAKE, SHAKE AND JAKE See Hear have access all areas on the set of a ground-breaking new children's TV show. Make, Shake and Jake is the first ever pre-school series presented both in English and sign language. Aimed at both deaf and hearing children it hopes to introduce easy BSL vocabulary through Sign Supported English. Shaun Shake is played by deaf actor, Nathan Rollinson and Mel Make is played by hearing actress, Catherine Boot who is studying BSL Level 3. Jake is Shaun Shake's assistance dog and is played by a fully trained hearing dog, Teal. We catch up with Nathan during his second day's filming and chat to the cast and crew about the making of the show. THE STELIOS AWARD FOR DISABLED ENTREPRENEURS easyGroup Chairman Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou is working with Leonard Cheshire Disability to find a disabled entrepreneur of the year. We profile two deaf businesspeople who are amongst the five nominees for the Award. Andrew Thomson set up Sign-Now.com, a web based video conferencing service, and Deborah Reynolds runs the School of Sign Language in Lancashire which aims to make British Sign Language courses accessible for children and adults at an affordable price. We follow them to the glamorous awards ceremony at the Natural History Museum and meet Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. Who will win the life changing £50,000 award? MYBSLBOOKS AND ITV SIGNED STORIES A report from the National Deaf Children's Society last year found that only a third of deaf children achieve five A-C GCSE grades compared with 60% of hearing children. Poor literacy is blamed for the growing attainment gap. As part of the National Year of Reading See Hear takes a look at two new initiatives aimed at improving literacy for deaf children. myBSLbooks and ITV Signed Stories are both making the best of British children's books available free on the Internet with British Sign Language translation. The initiatives aim to build free, fully accessible online libraries of signed books. We see how the books are made and what their young audience thinks of them.