Tacpac - communication through touch and music
TACPAC®
01865-772213
info@tacpac.co.uk
www.tacpac.co.uk
19 Florence Park Rd, Oxford OX4 3PN, UK

... communication through touch and music ...
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Tacpac® One
(sets 1, 2, 3)
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Tacpac
® Two
(4, 5, HandyPac)
Full pack
£54.50

(includes worldwide p&p)
Extra set
of 3 CDs
£27
Extra set
of 3 laminates
£10.50
Extra booklet
£18

Wriggling with silk! "tools for beautiful moments
of contact" Robert Orr, RNIB

"an absolute life saver"
Sue Carlyon, MSI Education
Adviser, Sense


"When I first did Tacpac®, I sat fighting back the tears. Finally
I had found something that was specifically designed to meet the needs of my child."
Mother of a child with severe
and complex sensory impairment
and global developmental delay

Tacpac® is a revolutionary activity pack that combines touch and music to promote communication and social interaction, sensory, neurological and emotional development.

The first 
Tacpac® has already been widely used for many years in classrooms, health settings and homes, and Tacpac® Two, released in 2007 won an inclusive resources award at the Special Education Needs Awards.

Tacpac® has received praise from the RNIB, Sense, nasen, the Times Educational Supplement, MSI networks, practitioners in health and education settings, parents, children, adolescents, adults, elderly dementia patients, and users across the world.

Take a look around our website to find out more about how Tacpac
® could help you and those you want to help. Read what others have to say about it, the background theory, and some of the research findings.

Please feel encouraged to get in touch - give us a call on 01865-772213, or email info@tacpac.co.uk. Ask us about how Tacpac
® could apply to your situation.

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News
PRIZEWINNER
nasen and TES
Special Educational Needs Awards 2007
Inclusive Resource for Primary Classrooms

Feature article in Insight magazine

Review by RNIB Music Adviser, Sally-Anne Zimmerman - Mar 2008

Tacpac Trainings
Delivered so far for:
... primary  care trust
... conferences
... inclusion teams
... portage services
... early years teams
... hospice
... speech and language therapists
...
communication and play workers
... community nursery and learning disability nurses
... child development centre
Conferences
23 Nov 2006
East Midlands Multi Sensory Impairment (MSI) Conference - A day on multi-sensory awareness, with Tacpac as the central focus.

Jan 2007
SPEVI Biennial Conference, Perth (South Pacific Educators for Visual Impairment) - A research paper on Tacpac was presented that includes perspectives of parents, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and music therapists. 'Tacpac - a tactile approach to communication through touch' by Sue Murray and Rosemarie Ells (New Zealand), and Hilary Wainer (Oxford).

13 Jun 2007
SENSE conference - Invitation to make Tacpac available at the UK's largest organisation for children and adults who are deafblind or have associated disabilities.

16 Nov 2007
Music' Conference - for Hampshire Music Service

12-13 Sept 2008
MSI (Deafblind) Conference - University of Northampton and the East Midlands Regional Partnership - CeSNER

October 3rd, 2008
St John's Hospital, Chelmsford. Training for Children's Community Nursing Services, for professionals who are working with people with PMLD, and those people coming to the end of their lives.

October 4th AND October 11th, 2008
2 half day's training for staff at Birkett House Special School in Leicester.