• Continuum of Programs
  • Calm Alert Connected™
  • Stop-Wait-Go™
  • Kids Gotta Move™
  • School Programs
  • Little Kids Gotta Move™
  • Tumbling Together™
  • Custom Programs & Training

Continuum of Programs

The Tumbling Together™ continuum of programs includes a variety of programs that can be individualized by therapists to meet each child's needs. School and child care programs are also under development to provide a framework for teaching self-regulation and group participation strategies to all toddlers and preschoolers. A model of extensive interprofessional and non-judgemental collaboration is used to help children develop the ability to be calm. alert, focused, and participating.


Program Goal

The programs incorporate movement and situational learning to explicity teach strategies in self-regulation, functional communication, and gross motor skills in a supported group setting. The context is a fun, age appropriate, sensory rich environment to help children learn to attain, maintain, and regain the optimal state of being calm, alert, focused, and participating.

The ultimate goal is to build the capacity of professionals, parents, and caregivers to identify, modify and implement specific strategies appropriate for each child to help attain, maintain, and regain the optimal state.


Program Focus

In the 15 years it took to refine the Tumbling Together™ continuum, it was found that the programs were most successful in helping toddlers and preschoolers achieve maximal independence when the caregivers were actively involved. For this reason, all of the programs focus on parent preparation and support to help parents co-regulate their child. This helps children to attend the program and effectively learn the strategies for group, school, and recreactional settings.


Calm Alert Connected™

Calm Alert Connected™ is a one-on-one program led by a trained therapist or specialist. Parents participate in a hands-on role with a flexible activity plan that allows the program to expand to 2, 3, or 4 participants to best meet the children's needs.


Program Details
  • Focus: Learn engagement and connection through a customized curriculum
  • For Children 18 months+ and their caregivers
  • 4-8 sessions ranging from 20-45 minutes in length, depending on the child's needs
  • One-on-one sessions with expansion to a group including 2, 3, or 4 children
  • Suitable for all children with challenges, delays, or special needs
  • Parents have a hands-on role during the program

Benefits to the Parents/Caregivers
  • Learn about self and co-regulation in a supportive and non-judgemental environment
  • Learn strategies that will facilitate co-regulation
  • Gain confidence in your ability to connect and engage with your child to encourage participation
  • Help your child explicity learn early language and self-regulation concepts
  • Learn strategies that can be used in pediatric therapies, playgoups, daycare, school, and recreational settings

Benefits to the Child
  • Connect and engage with caregivers in a fun, movement-based environment
  • Explicitly learn early language and self-regulation concepts
  • Learn strategies that will facilitate participation in therapy, community, or group programs
  • Prepare for participation in other Tumbling Together™ programs

Stop-Wait-Go™


Stop-Wait-Go™ is a small group program led by a trained therapist or specialist. Parents participate in a hands-on role with a structured activity plan to help the child learn simple group structure and participation skills.


Program Details
  • Focus: Learn simple group structure through a set curriculum
  • For Children 2.5 to 5 years old and their caregivers
  • 6 weekly sessions 45 minutes in length
  • Small group with 3 to 5 children
  • Suitable for all children with challenges, delays, or special needs who are able to go on simple equipment with help
  • Parents have a hands-on role during the program

Benefits to the Parents/Caregivers
  • Learn about self and co-regulation in a supportive and non-judgemental environment
  • Learn strategies that will facilitate co-regulation
  • Gain confidence in your ability to connect and engage with your child to encourage participation
  • Help your child explicity learn early language, self-regulation, and group structure concepts
  • Learn strategies that can be used in pediatric therapies, playgoups, daycare, school, and recreational settings
  • Meet other families in similar situations who can become a source of support and friendship
  • Receive a report at the end detailing strategies that were useful for your child

Benefits to the Child
  • Connect and engage with caregivers and other children in a fun, movement-based environment
  • Explicitly learn early language, self-regulation, and group structure concepts
  • Learn strategies that will facilitate participation in therapy or community programs
  • Prepare for participation in other Tumbling Together™ programs, daycare, or school
  • Learn that being a part of a group can be FUN
  • Make new friends

Kids Gotta Move™


Kids Gotta Move™ is a small to group program led by a trained therapist or specialist with additional team members. The children learn early group participation skills and competency building in a FUN, movement-based environment.


Kids Gotta Move™ (KGM) - Therapy Version

Program Details
  • Focus: Learn early group participation skills and separation from the parent
  • For Children 3 to 6 years old and their caregivers
  • 8 weekly sessions 45 minutes in length plus a parent preparation session
  • Small group with 3 to 5 children
  • Suitable for all children with challenges, delays, or special needs who are able to engage momentarily and go on age appropriate equipment with help
  • Parents participate in guided observation during the program

Benefits to the Parents/Caregivers
  • Learn how to support your child in separating from you in a supportive and non-judgemental environment
  • Participate in guided observation, learning useful strategies from the Parent Support Specialist
  • Learn strategies to help their child return to the group plan
  • Discuss situations that arise outside of the program and get suggestions from the Parent Support Specialist and other parents
  • Learn strategies that can be used in pediatric therapies, playgoups, daycare, school, and recreational settings
  • Meet other families in a similar situation who can provide support and friendship
  • Receive a report at the end detailing strategies that were useful for your child

Benefits to the Child
  • Connect and engage with team members and other children in a fun, movement-based environment
  • Learns strategies to support separation from the parent
  • Explicitly learns early group participation, communication, and motor skills
  • Sequencing and turn taking is taught to prepare the child for community programs, daycare, and school
  • Make new friends

Kids Gotta Move™ (KGM) - Child Care Inclusive

Program Details
  • Focus: Competenct building in a FUN and inclusive environment
  • For Children 3 to 6 years old
  • 6-8 weekly sessions 45 minutes in length at the daycare
  • Large group up to 15 children (a few with special needs)
  • Led by a trained therapist or specialist with a daycare group which includes a few children with special needs
  • Parents are not present during the program since it is done during daycare but are informed about the program and its objectives

Benefits of the Program
  • Connect and engage with child care staff, therapists, and other children in a fun, movement-based environment
  • Learn strategies and scripts that are useful in group participation and turn taking
  • Explicitly learn early group participation, communication, and motor skills
  • Sequencing and turn taking is taught to the children to prepare them for community programs, daycare, and school
  • The child care staff learn the strategies and scripts helpful to ensuring inclusion of all children in the group
  • A report is prepared at the end of the program detailing strategies that were useful for the children with special needs

School Programs

A variety of school programs are available for therapists, teachers, ECEs, and EAs working with children in kindergarten. The programs available boast both an intensive therapy version as well as an inclusive model. Please contact us to get more details about the programs available and to discuss the customization of these programs to best fit your class, school, or school board's needs.


Recent Programs
  • Kids Gotta Move™ After School - The Upper Canada District School Board supported by a ministry grant was able to offer 7 separate KGM After School programs to children in kindergarten with special needs, in particular those on the spectrum. This intensive therapy program involved many hours of training and mentorship for EAs, ECEs, teachers, and therapists working with the children in the schools.

Little Kids Gotta Move™ in Child Care

Little Kids Gotta Move™ in Child Care is an inclusive group program led by trained Early Childhood Educators and daycare providers that teaches all children group participation and self-regulation strategies. This program is also a training program for daycare providers on co-regulation and creating a collaborative and non-judgmental work environment.


Program Details
  • Focus: Adults learn co-regulation strategies, while children learn group participation strategies without impacting on the daily requirements of a licensed daycare
  • For Children 18 months to 4 years old
  • A four-week program that uses the daily routine and physical activity to teach group participation strategies to all children
  • Suitable for all children in the daycare centre, including those with special needs
  • A parent session is recommended to orient the parents to the program as well at the language, and strategies that will be used

Benefits to the Child Care Staff
  • Learn self-regulation and co-regulation strategies while fostering an interprofessional, collaborative, and non-judgmental environment
  • Weekly self-reflection makes it possible for staff to determine which activities were successful and should be a part of their daily routine
  • Add new strategies to their toolbox that become a part of the daily routines to help children develop foundations in self-regulation, engagement, and expression
  • Learn strategies that help to include all children in daily activities and decrease the number of distressing moments in children and staff
  • Upon completion of the program, the childcare staff can continue to use and expand upon the activities and routines that highlight the core concepts, as well as use the toolkit materials

Benefits to the Children
  • Concepts are introduced in a natural way by flooding the day with fun, movements, and games related to the concept of the week
  • Explicitly learn self-regulation skills and language to better participate and engage in peer interactions, and groups
  • Children with special needs are truly included in the daily activities learning from their peers and making friends
  • An infrastructure is in place to more easily integrate strategies from therapists into the daycare setting, helping with generalization of skills

Tumbling Together™


Tumbling Together™ is an intensive group program set in a gymnastics club offered by an expert, specialised interprofessional team. Children learn functional group participation skills and strategies to being calm, alert, and engaged in a FUN, movement-based environment.


Program Details
  • Focus: Learning functional skills for calm, alert, engagement, and group participation.
  • For Children 3 to 5 years old and their caregivers
  • 8 weekly sessions 45 minutes in length plus a parent preparation session
  • Group with 4 to 6 children
  • Suitable for all children with challenges, delays, special needs, or extreme dysregulation who are able to go on gym equipment with help and who are able to or need to learn about imposed structure
  • Parents participate in guided observation during the program
  • The therapist/team member to child ratio is one-to-one or better

Benefits to Parents/Caregivers
  • Learn how to support child separation in a supportive and non-judgemental environment
  • Learn and practice strategies to help with self and co-regulation in an interprofessional and supportive environment
  • Participate in guided observation, learning useful strategies from the Parent Support Specialist
  • Discuss situations that arise outside of the program and get suggestions from the Parent Support Specialist and other parents
  • Learn how to help your child return to the group plan
  • Learn strategies that can be used in pediatric therapies, playgoups, daycare, school, and recreational settings
  • Meet other families in similar situations who can become a source of support and friendship
  • Receive a report at the end detailing strategies that were useful for your child

Benefits to the Child
  • Connect and engage with team members and other children in a fun, movement-based environment
  • Explicitly learn early language, self-regulation, and group structure concepts
  • Learn strategies that will facilitate participation in therapy, community programs, and school
  • Learn strategies to support separation from the parent
  • Explicitly learn self-regulation, communication and motor skills
  • Practice group participation skills such as waiting, turn taking, lining up, and sequencing
  • Work on individualized goals set by the interprofessional team in the areas of self-regulation & engagement, sensor/motor, language & communicaiton, and school/group participation
  • Make new friends

Custom Programs & Training

We specialize in helping develop custom training for parents, therapists, caregivers and staff. We can also help you customize our existing programs to better meet your needs or organizational structure. Please contact us for consultation on your training or program needs.


Training Outcomes
  • Paradigm shift for a collaborative and non-judgmental interprofessional work environment
  • Co-regulation and self-regulation strategies to improve team communication
  • Universal strategies applicable to all children 18 months to 6 years old for improved engagment and participation
  • Specialized strategies to better support children with special needs in group programs, therapy, and school/daycare
  • Program curriculums and implementation plans for the Tumbling Together™ Continuum of Programs or customized programs