Orkid Ideas - TomTag

TomTag has a positive effect on behaviour by reducing anxieties and frustrations and making it easier for your child to understand, follow and remember what they need to do. It’s a visual support that children love to use.

Everything’s ready to go with TomTag’s colourful, sturdy tags, click-in buttons and symbol stickers. Forget the faffy printing, laminating and Velcro. All you need to do is personalise it – just pick, stick, click and off you go.

All the TomTag symbols have been grouped together into categories relating to a specific topic, skill or area of life. Think about where you need most support or what issues you’re particularly struggling with right now and we’ll help you to decide what will work best for you.

A visual support uses images, pictures, words or symbols to help us understand or remember information. Most of us rely on forms of visual schedules and timetables (like calendars, to-do lists or recipes) to organise our lives and there are visual cues all around that help us to navigate through our day.

Visual supports can be most beneficial for individuals who have difficulty with spoken communication, with understanding and retaining verbal information or those who are visual learners. This will include typically-developing young children as well as children, young people and adults with a range of learning differences and additional needs, particularly autism, ASD, dyslexia and ADHD.