TACPAC Advanced Practitioner

Becoming an Advanced TACPAC Practitioner is an opportunity to deepen your expertise, strengthen your practice, and maximise the impact of TACPAC for the people you support. Through the Advanced training, you will gain a richer understanding of the theory, research, and principles that underpin TACPAC, helping you deliver sessions with greater confidence, consistency, and purpose.

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Advanced Practitioner status provides a greater understanding of how the brain responds to music and how tactile sensory patterns of association can help re-pattern physical and emotional routines. This enhanced theoretical knowledge strengthens your ability to make informed decisions in practice and create more meaningful, responsive experiences for your Receivers.

Enhance Your Practical Skills

The Advanced course draws on real-life examples of TACPAC in action across a range of settings, giving you valuable practitioner insights and practical strategies that can be applied immediately. By building a stronger theoretical and practical foundation, you will be better equipped to hone your TACPAC sessions to meet individual needs and achieve more effective outcomes

Improve Outcomes for Receivers

A deeper understanding of TACPAC enables practitioners to focus more effectively on communication, language, social and emotional development, and sensory needs. The structured, repetitive and sequential nature of TACPAC supports areas such as planning, organisation, executive functioning, and developmental progression. Practitioners can also set meaningful small-step targets and create positive experiences that build confidence, engagement and emotional wellbeing.

Become a Champion Within Your Organisation

Organisations benefit significantly from having Advanced Practitioners within their teams. Advanced Practitioners act as a source of expertise, supporting colleagues, promoting consistency, and helping to develop best practice across services. Their knowledge can contribute to stronger team capability and improved outcomes for Receivers.

Build Confidence and Professional Credibility

Advanced Practitioner status demonstrates a commitment to high-quality practice and ongoing professional development. Practitioners benefit from continued access to updated knowledge, resources, and learning opportunities that support long-term growth and confidence in delivering TACPAC.

How do I start my TAP journey?

Whether you are looking to enhance your professional skills, improve outcomes for your Receivers, or become a recognised source of expertise within your organisation, Advanced Practitioner status provides the knowledge, confidence and practical insight to take your TACPAC practice to the next level.

To start your journey, let us know you would like to complete it and we will help you during every step with tips, timely reminders and our free resources.

Start

Get Set 1&2
Download the TACPAC App
Download the Sensory Development Tracker

Essential Training

Attend an Online Essential Training day

Use TACPAC

Use TACPAC in your setting, continue to use the Sensory Development Tracker

Get Sets 3 & 4

Proficiency Assurance Course

Complete Level 1&2

Advanced Training

Take part in Advanced Training

Proficiency Assurance Course

Complete Level 3

Certificate Awarded

Receive Set 5&6
Discounted Sets for your organisation
Reduced Training costs for your organisation

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