TACPAC Research and Resource Campaign

TACPAC, the sensory communication resource using Touch and Music, is launching its Research and Resource campaign. We’re excited to invite all our TACPAC community across the world to take part in this campaign.

Hilary Wainer BMus, MEd, DipMTh, Dip Psychotherapy

Co-Founder and Director

We all know that TACPAC works. We have had so many anecdotal reports of wonderful magical moments in sessions. We have had also had research contributions as being part of a master’s degrees and many of you have enquired about carrying out further research.

We now want to collate all those studies, stories, those special moments, from all our Tacpackers. For those among us who are interested in researching the changes we see in our TACPAC partners, young and old and what brings about those changes, this will be such a valuable resource.

It is important for this research to be made available to those seeking to find out more about TACPAC methodology of using 2 sensory languages to communicate. We hope to see our articles published in reputable journals, attracting wider audiences who can add to this body of knowledge.

There is ample well researched evidence backing up the benefits of music on the brain, and touch on the body. Now it is up to us to break new ground, and share how this related to TACPAC.

It is going to be wonderful to read and see what others in the TACPAC Community are doing in their sessions. We are going to collate these experiences and we encourage everyone to contribute to the beginning of this body of information.

Aim of the research

We would like to see your research published in relevant and reputable journals showing how TACPAC has been validated through various methodologies.

Who would benefit from TACPAC research

Anyone who wants to do academic research on TACPAC. These include anyone undertaking further study in their Master’s degree, or enquire further on how and why your TACPAC sessions are working.

Through publication of the research, practitioners with similar interests are aware of new knowledge in their field and this helps to advance knowledge and its application.

Anecdotal observations will greatly assist the entire TACPAC Community and will be published on the website.

Wherever possible, we will link like-minded people with similar goals so that your topic of investigation is strengthened.

Looking into how a child behaviour changes over a course of TACPAC

TACPAC Researcher

Investigating the impact of patterning and sequencing with a group of autistic adults using TACPAC

Master's Degree Research

Researching the development of the relationship between giver and receiver over 6 months in a primary school class

TACPAC user

Interested?

If you are interested in carrying out research on TACPAC, please get in touch

Please fill in this form below and we will get back to you as soon as possible

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

Louise Stewart

Qualified Teacher of the Visually Impaired (QTVI) Masters Level

Birmingham University

BA (1st Class Hons) Communication Studies – Nottingham

PGCE (Oxford)

RESEARCH ARTICLE

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