Welcome to all our Canadian Tacpackers and a special welcome to those who have been on the CBE Staff Association Virtual Convention 2022

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, developmental delay, complex learning difficulties, tactile defensiveness, and limited or pre-verbal levels of communication.

Getting Started With Tacpac

If you are interested in getting Tacpac, please follow the simple steps below

Get Set 1&2

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Set 1&2

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Get Set Up

Watch the videos, set up your room and get your objects

Get Ready

Get App

The app ensures you get our composed music on or offline

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Join Us

See below for our special Canadian training day

Join Us

Our Online Essential Course

We have developed a live online course for you to get essential understanding and practical techniques for using TACPAC effectively.

We are running a special training day for our Canadian Tacpackers, 30^th March, 2022 9.30 – 3:00.

Course Content
What you will learn

Course Content

Our sensory system and the role of touch
Understanding the importance of the basic beat
Experiencing the touch and music in an activity, using objects
Use of thematic material
How the limbic system affects our senses
The central role of music in Tacpac
Sensory communication
Sensory overload

What you will learn

Understand the theory behind Tacpac
Learn to internalise and effectively deliver the Tacpac activities
Experience ‘sensory overload’ for yourself
Heighten awareness of your own senses (we have more than 5)
Discover how to work effectively with touch
Build skills in multi-sensory interaction (touch–sight–movement–sound)
Synchronise your sense of touch with your sense of music
Meet other professionals in the field, parents, and carers
Receive a Tacpac CPD Certificate in Sensory Alignment.

Tacpac Essential

30^th March, 9.30 – 3:00

Online using Zoom

Price CAD $199

Price includes 3 weeks Set 1

Resource links from the presentation

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

Welcome to all our Canadian Tacpackers and a special welcome to those who have been on the CBE Staff Association Virtual Convention 2022

Getting Started With Tacpac

Get Set 1&2

Get Set Up

Get App

Join Us

Our Online Essential Course

We are running a special training day for our Canadian Tacpackers, 30th March, 2022 9.30 – 3:00.

Course Content

What you will learn

Course Content

What you will learn

Tacpac Essential

Resource links from the presentation

This Is Your Brain On Music – How Music Benefits The Brain

Limbic System: Definition, Parts, Functions, and Location

6 Ways the Limbic System Impacts Physical, Emotional, and Mental Health

How does the brain process music?

Brain picks up the beat of music automatically

Why does music evoke memories?

We are running a special training day for our Canadian Tacpackers, 30^th March, 2022 9.30 – 3:00.