I run and operate the café and gift shop inside the facility. We have a staff member who teaches sessions on how to quit smoking and she highly recommends your product to her patients. I said I would be more than happy to have a variety of your products on hand in the gift shop for them to purchase

Thank you for the quick delivery and supporting materials!

-Jackie Hutchison, Homewood Health Centre, Canada

Beyond the utility of these toys, the price makes them easily affordable. When one becomes too loose, I do not feel bad for buying more, and they make fantastic and affordable gifts.

I am so glad that you guys are still providing these awesome toys.

Alexandra Morton,
Berlin

We use Tangles to assist our quitters in our Freedom From Smoking program.  People who are former smokers often don’t know what to do with their hands without a cigarette.  Tangles help to distract them from a craving for a cigarette.  I always have Tangles on the table when they first come into class because that is when they are most anxious about quitting and Tangles helps to relieve them of their nervous energy.

I also give Tangles as a training gift for health care providers when I train them in how to perform a brief intervention for tobacco use.  I explain what an important tool Tangles can be in helping their patients who smoke to make a quit attempt.  

Thank you for this fun and useful product.

-Richard

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Emily and I have high functioning autism. I was really struggling with stress at school, which lead to me biting and scratching my hands. 

It was a really awful time to go through. I saw the Tangle Jr on Amazon and I saw good reviews, so in a flash decision, I bought one.

This was the best decision I have ever made. Now, when I am stressed and upset or having a meltdown, I fiddle with this. It calms me down and distracts me from hurting myself.

I have recommended your product to everyone with Autism and various other special needs that I know.

So, thank you very much.

Regards,

Emily Smith

The Tangle Relax is our favorite fidget. This quiet fidget toy is covered with textured rubber. It keeps fingers active, is quiet, and is very interesting to touch.  This item can break apart and be reconnected.  You can turn it into two mini fidgets or reassemble it into different color combinations.

“10 Sensory Toys Kids & Teens with Autism Will Love” http://bit.ly/1PcgaPz,
National Autism Resources

We represent the Office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman within the State Department on Aging in Connecticut.  The Office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman is charged with protecting and advocating for the care & services and rights of residents in Connecticut nursing facilities.  Over the past few years at a federal level there has been an initiative to decrease the use of antipsychotic medications used in nursing homes.  It was identified that many of these medications were being used to manage behaviors among residents with a diagnosis of dementia.  As medications were being reviewed and decreased, nursing facilities have been looking for alternative strategies to manage what they have identified as behaviors.

Our office celebrates our nursing home residents each year in October, during National Nursing Home week and holds a state wide conference for the residents that are leaders within their communities.  This year our focus is on the national initiative to decrease antipsychotic medications in nursing homes and alternative and innovative programs designed to manage identified behaviors in a more holistic way.  We will highlight programs such as music therapy, interactive computer programming, horticulture therapy, aroma therapy etc. as alternatives.  We will be providing each resident that attends the conference with a Tangle to be used for his or her own relaxation purpose.

Office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman,
State Department on Aging,
Connecticut, USA.

“I work for a learning center that provides one-to-one cognitive therapy to individuals with learning challenges and disabilities. I have ordered a number of your products over the last couple of months, we now have one Tangle for each station in both of our centers (Chino, CA and Irvine, CA).  We find that many of our students enjoy your product so much that they now ask for it at the beginning of their session.  In turn many of the parents have made their own purchases.

Our owner and director Jill Stowell is hosting a Simulation for the community that helps them gain greater understanding and compassion for students who struggle with attention, auditory, and learning challenges.  She is going to provide the attendees with a bag which will include her book At Wit’s End: A Parent’s Guide to Ending the Struggle, Tears and Turmoil of Learning Disabilities, some other pieces of literature, and Jill would very much like to include a Tangle Relax Therapy in each bag.”

Andrea Wood, Stowell Learning Center

“I believe the tangle is my favorite thinking tool, listening tool, and sitting tool for kids on the spectrum, and for all busy kids. Thank you for your customer service. “

cheers,
Marc Landry, Occupational Therapist

Marc’s Sensory Oasis: www.marclandry.ca  

To the Tangles Team

I am so impressed with your products. I am a Resource teacher and am on the look out for products such as these. I work with children with a variety of needs and the tangles would be of great use in my classroom.

Kind regards

Louise Byrne, Ireland

“I placed a few in our De-Stress Kits that are on each unit. We had a meeting on Friday and I was so tickled to see that almost everyone had one. I pulled mine out first and then everyone else began to pull theirs out and hold it. We felt like we belonged to a secret club.

My manager texted me the day I brought them to the units and stated “Can I just say I love this weird orange wormy toy?!?!” I had sent an e-mail about Tangles after I placed them in the boxes.

I, personally, have found that using the Tangle in a meeting has helped me focus on what is being said. Usually, I am doodling or spacing out, but the past two meeting that I have been to with a Tangle in hand, I have noticed more retention on what is being talked about as well as me being more vocal and adding to the conversation.

A few other nurses have mentioned that they love the Tangle. Just mindlessly “playing” during downtime helps to decompress. Today, when I came our charge nurse stated that it wasn’t helping. She had a very stressful day, I told her that per the website it is only to be used for mild stress.”