Welcome to TACPAC – Communication through touch and music

TACPAC draws together touch and music to create a structured half hour of sensory communication between two people. TACPAC creates sensory alignment and helps people of any age who have sensory impairment, for example, visual impairment, developmental delay, complex learning difficulties, Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) or limited or pre-verbal levels of communication.

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TACPAC sets come in pairs to give you one year of continuous activity.
Access the TACPAC music offline on our app for phones and tablets.
Access guidance videos for each activity online.
Printable TACPAC Activity Sheet
Printable Record Keeping guide and template
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Training

Upcoming Face-to-Face Courses

Our face to face courses are back!

Face to Face Essential Training -12th January 2024

Upcoming Live Online Courses

Our live online course is a simple and convenient way to learn about TACPAC

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Research Project: Can Tacpac make a positive impact on parents and children with a visual impairment?

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Can the use of TACPAC interventions make a positive impact on parent/child communication and interaction for children with a vision impairment?

Laura Cozier2020-05-18T08:32:39+00:00May 14th, 2020|0 Comments

I found the training was delivered well and matched my school’s cohort very well. It was thought provoking and gave me many ideas on how this can be rolled out and introduced. It also enabled me to get a clearer idea around the intent and the purpose of TAC PAC as a communication strategy and how this can be explained to outside agencies such as ofsted.

Cheryl Louis, Treehouse School

I thoroughly enjoyed the whole training day from start to finish. Vanessa was an amazing instructor and pitched the course well with both theory and practical. She was extremely helpful in answering questions relating to my context and I can’t thank her enough. I feel confident in taking this intervention forward in my class of complex P1 learners.

Charlotte Johnstone Teacher Park School

It was really informative. I would encourage parents and other professional to go through Tac Pac training. Found it really innovative. Most surprising fact that it can be done with household simple stuff and doesn’t need to be expensive, very much handy and easy to use for parents/other caregiver and professionals.

Online Training Delegate,

The learning of the importance of the beat and uncovering some of the myths that we had previously been doing in our school so now they can be corrected. I feel I can relay the appropriate content learnt to other staff within my setting now.

Eimear Corrigan, Teacher,, Palmerstone School, Liverpool

I have been working with children with special needs for the past seven years. I have been amazed at the transformation in children who have been exposed to Tacpac. As there are no trainers that I know of in the Perth area, I am interested in becoming a trainer to enable more children to reap the benefits of this wonderful program.

SEN teacher

Hilary, You have given much joy to many with your creation of Tacpac. You really have made a difference to the lives of many children and their families.

Sue Murray,BLENNZ School, New Zealand

Well delivered. I like that even though this training was virtual it still felt very interactive and a safe place to ask questions and have discussions. I do feel like I have the knowledge and skills to begin TACPAC ‘properly’ now (or at least after a few more practice sessions on my niece). Thank you very much.

Emily Parham, Speech & Language Therapist, OXLEAS

The activities were brilliant for being able to practise the movements to the music in a supportive environment. There was no part of the course that I didn’t enjoy and from which I didn’t learn. Although I have used TACPAC before, I hadn’t considered the importance of unknown music without any connotations attached to it for the receiver. This now makes perfect sense and was a revelation!

Ashley Chambers, Portage Practitioner, Kent

Great working with you all

Dom Knight, Oxfordshire Web Services

I messaged my manager during the break to tell her how amazing the training course is; I didn’t expect it to go into as much detail as it did. I liked how the course went into detail about the function of the Limbic System in relation to behaviour and response. I now want to do more research into the physiological aspects of behaviour in Autism to work on positive behaviour support within our homes

Tracey Hamilton, Homes Manager , Albrighton Care

Communication through touch and music

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Welcome to TACPAC – Communication through touch and music

New to TACPAC?

Upcoming Face-to-Face Courses

Face to Face Essential Training -12th January 2024

Upcoming Live Online Courses

Essentials Online Live Training Event 7th December 2023 – FULLY BOOKED

Essentials Online Live Training Event 9th January 2024

Essentials Online Live Training Event 19th October 2023 – FULLY BOOKED

Essentials Online Live Training Event 3rd November 2023 – FULLY BOOKED

Exclusive NZ & Australia Essentials Online Live Training Event 19th October 2023

Essentials Online Live Training Event 15th November 2023 – FULLY BOOKED

Research Project: Can Tacpac make a positive impact on parents and children with a visual impairment?

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