This award was set up in memory of our friend, colleague and TACPAC trainer, Susie Fuller. It’s awarded to TACPAC users who have shown outstanding commitment to embedding TACPAC into their homes or workplaces, and who show the benefits of this work with the progress and development of their TACPAC partners, whether they are children, young people, older people or families.

Nominations open in January every year, with the winner announced in December.

Meet our 2023 winner: Donna Lever

Donna was first introduced to TACPAC during her time at Heltwate School and her words was ‘absolutely blown away with the difference it made to the children I was supporting’.

19 months ago, Donna moved from Heltwate school and joined the Autism Advisory Teacher Services in Peterborough. This gave her a good opportunity to model TACPAC in many different settings. Many schools were really interested in the programme, so it was decided with the support of Claire Nunn to put a training day on in Peterborough. The day was a success and many professionals have taken it on board and gone straight into delivering the programme.

Winning Ways

As always, the prize that goes with the Susie Fuller Award is tailored to the needs of the winners. TACPAC will work closely with Donna over the coming months to deliver what she needs and provide ongoing support.

Find out more

If you want to learn more about great ways of using TACPAC with your receivers, and the importance of the basic beat, sign up to one of our online training sessions: https://TACPAC.co.uk/TACPAC-online-training/

If you are interested in learning more about how to roll out TACPAC in your setting please get in touch office@tacpac.co.uk

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

office@tacpac.co.uk | +44 1865 772 213

Winner of the Susie Fuller Award 2023

Meet our 2023 winner: Donna Lever

Winning Ways

Find out more

Winner of the Susie Fuller Award 2023

Meet our 2023 winner: Donna Lever

Winning Ways

Find out more

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