TAGteach is Teaching with Acoustical Guidance. It's a revolutionary teaching and coaching method that gives you the tools to simplify your instructions, use fewer words and get better, faster results. You will be able to communicate more effectively with your child, whether verbal or non-verbal. TAGteach empowers you to teach the way your child needs to be taught, with clear goals, immediate feedback from a sound marker and success at each step. 

As the parent of a special needs child or as an ABA therapist you may struggle with some of the following:

TAGteach provides a solution to these problems. At its heart, TAGteach is a communication method that is based on the same science as Applied Behavior Analysis. It provides another set of tools to allow 2-way communication that gives control and confidence to the child, whether non-verbal or with good language skills. Using TAGteach will help you to:

We know that there are a lot of unproven, pseudo-scientific autism treatments being promoted to parents. The last thing we wanted was to be another of those. That's why we have spent the last 10 years presenting at ABA conferences, showing TAGteach to top experts in autism teaching and behaviour analysis and making sure that parents and practitioners can get good results, before even mentioning this to parents. Click here to download the complete reference list of published and unpublished studies

At a TAGteach seminar you'll learn to talk less, teach more and get better results in a shorter time. You'll learn to formulate your lessons and instructions for maximum understanding by your child. You'll have a ton of fun doing it!

TAGteach will give you the tools to recognize your child's strengths, start from a point of success, build on tiny successes to build more success, use positive reinforcement to make it fun and keep your child's attention. You'll learn to focus on what your child CAN do rather than what he can't do.

Here's a video example of TAGteach in action with a child in an autism school. This shows one of the TAGteach techniques, in which the learner gets to be the teacher. This is a great way to get the child involved and highly focused and to assess his understanding of the goal behavior.

Here's another example of TAGteach in action. This is a very complex skill with a typically developing 9-year old. This shows how small parts of a skill taught individually come together to create a completed skill.

Here's a video that shows a child diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, who didn't want to go into the swimming pool. This perfectly illustrates the goal of TAGteach, which is to teach skills so that the behavior itself becomes reinforcing. By the end of the session, Lear is swimming on his own and demanding that the helper watch him and not help.

TAGteach is being used in many disciplines, from orthopedic surgeon training to kindergarten classrooms, from non-verbal kids with severe developmental delays to senior business managers, and everything in between.

Here are a few teachers explaining why they like using TAGteach and how it benefits them and their learners:

You'll learn how to be the best teacher/trainer/coach/parent that you can be. We'll show you how to supercharge the entire learning environment with tools that:

1. Optimize instructions
2. Provide instant feedback
3. Provide instant, meaningful reinforcement
4. Fast-track success for you and your learners

TAGteach seminars are hands-on and interactive. You'll learn new skills step-by-step and have lots of opportunity for practice. You'll leave the seminar with the knowledge and confidence you need to put TAGteach into action RIGHT AWAY!

You'll work with people from many different disciplines. This is one of the aspects that people love about our seminars. There could be a dog trainer, a doctor, an autism parent, a speech therapist, a hypnotist, a personal trainer, a classroom teacher, a behavior analyst, a business manager, a sports coach or any number of other fascinating people, each with their own experience, knowledge and challenges. You never know what you might learn! We've had hula lessons, ski lessons, origami, Mandarin, dog handling and so many more cool things taught at our seminars.

One of the most common things we hear from seminar is attendees is "this is going to change my life". The TAGteach principles are far-reaching and apply to every aspect of dealing with other people (and even yourself) in daily life.

Here's a snippet from a seminar introduction with TAGteach cofounder Theresa McKeon:

A group of young dance teachers talk about their experiences at a TAGteach seminar:

Paula, a violin/viola teacher from Desmoines tells about her impressions after a TAGteach seminar:

Listen to these university students explain how learning and teaching with TAGteach changed the way they look at life:

Here are some comments from child athletes about their feelings about being taught with TAGteach: