Welcome to all those taking part in the WASHPAC pilot
Thank you for volunteering to take part in the trial of Washpac, to help improve and develop it so that many more can benefit.
With focus on our receivers who may be experiencing difficulties with the tactile element of their personal care, Washpac extends this focus to the givers. You, the parents, carers, teachers and perhaps others who routinely deal daily with our receivers with care, persistence and sometimes duty, sometimes love, but always with good intent.
This sensory communication resource is as much for you as it is for the person in your care. All too often the role of the giver is overlooked and underestimated. Not in this case. We try to do this together with our receivers and allow a partnership to develop, eventually with both giver and receiver participating in equal measure. We want to recognise and respect the role you play in the daily exchange with toothbrushes, flannels and hairbrushes.
So put your comments in the feedback forms, tell us what it’s really like for you both, list your top tips and good advice. We look forward to hearing from you – Thank you very much!
Hilary Wainer TACPAC founder
WASHPAC Steps
What will we do with our Pilot information?
Zaiba Patel, a doctoral student at the University of Oxford.
The pilot project will run from October 2025 – July 2026. During this time, all participants will be filling in the pre session assessment form, and the post session feedback form. These will be sent back to our researcher. After July 2026, the information will be collated. From this we hope to see what benefits there have been for the receivers, for the givers, and also what improvements to the resource have been suggested by those using it.
Our researcher can then use this information to do a presentation of the results, linking these to current research in personal care and sensory processing.
We hope to produce a user friendly, practical and useful resource for all our members to benefit from, with all the information we’re receiving from this trial.
Thank you for your willingness to pave the way for others !
Additional Resources
Powerpoint Presentation
This short power point has all the activities in video, plus explanations as to how to carry out the activities. There are 6 activities, plus the music for the initial setting up of the bathroom with your toiletries. This may also be the bedroom, depending on what you choose to work on.
How to start?
- You could choose one activity that you feel your receiver will feel comfortable with, and familiarise them with the music, the rhythm, and the new way of using this article. (toothbrush, flannel etc). That might be a good way to introduce the routine when you feel you’d like to use something your receiver is not so comfortable with. You could choose together.
- You could choose one activity you feel your receiver is not comfortable with, and the music might make it an easier experience all round.
- Do not rush into this. Make sure your receiver knows what you’re going to do, where the touch will fall and when it will fall. These 2, the touch and music have to happen at the same time.
- When you have both mastered one activity, move on to the next.
Please download this power point.
FAQs
We need some WASHPAC ones
The TACPAC app is available for both Android and Apple devices. Our apps are designed to be used when you want to play the music but don’t have internet access. They can be easily wired up to an external speaker for a high quality, digital sound.
For more information on setting up the app on your device click here
If you are not sure what email you used when making your purchase please have a look in your inbox for any emails we have sent you in the past as that is the one that is on our system.
Please contact us directly on office@tacpac.co.uk if you cannot find anything.
Password
You won’t need to remember your old password (pre 2023), you just need to enter your email address associated with your TACPAC account and create a new password.
If you are not sure what email you used, please have a look at your email of any emails we have sent you in the past as that is the one that is on our system.
Reset password:
- Click on My Account(which takes you to the login screen if not logged in) and select “Forgotten password”.
Username
You won’t need to remember your old username, we no longer use this. You just need to enter your email address associated with your TACPAC account
Yes it has been specially composed. You can’t use any music. The whole point of TACPAC is the alignment of the sensory languages of Touch and Music. (meaning of alignment: makes a balanced and supportive relationship of these two elements to make each one clear, utilised, emphasised and understood. The one needs the other for either to proceed.)
The music has been composed to be aligned with the texture of the objects.
If you use different music, there is no alignment with the touch, and therefore the whole reason for doing a TACPAC session is null and void. You will be doing something – but it won’t be a TACPAC session, with its benefits, insights and communication. Remember TACPAC is about communication, use it to communicate, and you’ll be surprised what it holds for you and your partner. Come on a training to learn how this works.
Have a read of our blog on the TACPAC music here
TACPAC has a unique contextual framework, following a coherent and logical scheme of work which guides the practise and choices the TACPAC practitioner makes during planning, executing and assessing their practise. The unique framework is based on aligning two sensory languages, and learning to communicate through this new language forged by the partnership. The logical rules and laws of music are combined with the equally logical, instinctive rules and laws of touch to form a methodology which is easy to understand, and is inviting to use since it is familiar to us all. The specific procedures and techniques lend themselves to further research.
TACPAC is a sensory communication resource, and as such, the only processing done in a session is sensory. TACPAC works in a partnership of two people of equal status, and these 2 people learn each other’s sensory likes and dislikes, so that communication can be equal and effective. The TACPAC giver will understand that good processing takes place with no distractions, with a reliable and predictable partner, and with the close alignment of the touch to the music. This way sensory processing benefits from seeing, hearing and feeling one message which can then go from giver to receiver.
Make sure you check your junk mail folder and also add TACPAC to your list of ‘safe’ contacts on your email account. If you still can’t find your password email, please get in touch with office@tacpac.co.uk for a new password. Please note, only the account holder can request a new password.
Alternatively, you can request a password reset link to be sent to you by clicking here – https://hub.tacpac.co.uk/login/
There could be a number of different problems causing this. Please email us on office@tacpac.co.uk with details including the registered email address on the account, whether you are trying to access your account on the website or the app, and whether this has happened before.
TACPAC is an electronic product which means that you don’t get anything in the post. Once you’ve placed your order and created your account, you’ll get a confirmation email. You can then login to your account with your registered email and password created at the time of purchase. If you have forgotten your password, you can request a reset link to be emailed to you here – https://hub.tacpac.co.uk/login/
Your TACPAC Sets will be visible in your account, once payment has been received.
Any questions, please contact us on office@tacpac.co.uk
No you can not download the TACPAC music. You can use our app on a phone or tablet and this enables you to play the music without an internet connection.
You can only use one device at any one time per account. So by logging in to your app on your phone will log you out of your app on your iPad or other device.