TacpacTM One
(CDs 1, 2, 3, laminates and guidance booklet)
£62.50
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TacpacTM Two
(Cds 4, 5, HandyPac, laminates and guidance booklet)
£62.50
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Price includes worldwide p&p
Objects not included
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Extra set
of 3 CDs
£27 |
Extra set
of 3 laminates
£10.50 |
Extra booklet
£18 |
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What
is Tacpac?
What
happens?
Using
Tacpac over time
Who can
benefit?
Tacpac
Trainings |
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What
is Tacpac®?
Tacpac®
is an activity resource for helping people with sensory or neurological
impairment, developmental delay, profound and multiple learning
difficulties, tactile defensiveness, and limited or pre-verbal
communication. It provides a structured, emotionally safe framework for
the 'receiving partner' to make contact with their own bodies, their
environment and other people, and develop a relationship with these.
The 'giving partner' ensures that each tactile experience is well
organised and sensitively offered, and adjusted to suit the receving
partner's responses.
What
happens?
Tacpac® begins with the simple sense of
touch with a familiar, easy-to-get-hold-of, everyday object, such as a
kitchen sponge, a wooden spatula, or some furry fabric. The experience
is then enhanced through the principle of 'sensory alignment'. We have
then composed a piece of music specifically to match the texture,
character, and even the emotional quality of the touch experience. The
activity and object is announced on the CD before each piece of music
starts. The receiving partner hears
what they see
and what they feel
on their skin: sensory alignment - and sensory reinforcement for
seeing, hearing and touching.
Through linking what becomes familiar music with objects, actions and
people in a pattern of different activities, the partners communicate
with each other.
Each Tacpac® session lasts around half
an hour, and consists of 6 of these experiences in a sequence carefully
planned for maximum variety of stimulus, always ending with a relaxing
piece of music. To set up a session, you need a disturbance free zone,
the Tacpac® CD, a CD player, the objects
themselves, and the colour-matched A4 laminate that describes the six
activities.
Using
Tacpac® over time
A
session like this could be repeated with the receiver perhaps twice a
week for three to four months. To begin with, they might be unfamiliar
with it, and wary of touch experiences - 'tactile defensive'. The
reactions will give clues to what they like nad dislike (see guidance
booklet included with every pack). As you repeat the sessions over a
number of weeks or months (or over a few days eg within short term
respite care visits), the receiving partner begins to recognise the
music, and anticipate the next touch experience; they can relax more
into the sessions, actively showing anticipation of their favourite
objects or music, and interacting with them more. Over time, they may
also begin to relate more obviously with the giving partner. It is the
building of trust which can help both giver and receiver develop
greater confidence in communicating with each other, perhaps
meaningfully for the first time.
There
are two packs - Tacpac® One and
Tacpac® Two. Each pack contains 3 CDs
with matching laminates, so material for 3 distinct sessions or
potentially a year of work with each pack. (How
to order)
Who can
benefit?
Tacpac® is used by infants, children,
siblings, parents, portage workers, therapists, carers, education
(nursery, primary and secondary) and health professionals, and is now
also finding applications in adult day care centres and colleges,
mental health, geriatric and dementia settings.
We
are delighted that the quality of our work has been recognised by
becoming a prizewinner in the UK Special Educational Needs Awards 2007
sponsored by nasen (National Association for Special Educational Needs)
and the TES (Times Educational Supplement).
Tacpac®
Trainings
Tacpac® is user-friendly and very easy
to run. The more you use it, the more you will discover how adaptable
it is to the different developmental needs of receiving partners. Tacpac®
Trainings have been created to give a greater understanding of how our
senses work, and how this relates to music, communication, observation
skills, development and session planning.
If
you are interested in learning more, and would like to receive
training in your organisation or area, please get in touch with us on tel
01865-772213,
or
email us at info@tacpac.co.uk. |
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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
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| 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.
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