Assess
We help you see beneath the behaviour
A two-minute Snapshot turns what you notice into strengths, needs and priorities.
Try a Snapshot →The BOUNCE Approach®
A whole-child framework
Understand first. Then support. A developmental lens for seeing behaviour differently. When the need underneath is met, things can change.
The six pillars: B Body and the Nervous System, O Openness and Trust, U Understanding Sensory Differences, N Navigating Emotions, C Connection and Communication, E Esteem and Identity.
“What does this child need right now?”
The question the framework exists to answer
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A developmental sequence
Each level rests onthe one below
Children and young people engage best when support matches the order in which the nervous system develops.
You cannot reason with a child whose body does not feel safe, or build identity before connection.
When a need is met, what sits above it becomes reachable.
The base is widest because it holds the most weight. Body and the Nervous System is the ground the other five stand on, returned to again and again.
Select a pillar to find out more
Select a pillar above.Each pillar rests on the ones below it, and makes the ones above it reachable.
Grounded in evidence
Six areas, one child.Six disciplines, one framework.
BOUNCE® brings together well-established research from six disciplines – usually taught separately – into one practical framework.
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Pillar 1 · Foundation
Body and the Nervous System
ResearchPolyvagal TheoryHow the nervous system senses safety and threat. The foundation everything else rests on.
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Pillar 2
Openness and Trust
ResearchAttachment TheoryHow relationships build trust, co-regulation and safety.
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Pillar 3
Understanding Sensory Differences
ResearchSensory Integration and InteroceptionHow each child or young person experiences their body and the world around them.
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Pillar 4
Navigating Emotions
ResearchTrauma-Informed and Neurosequential ModelsRecognising, expressing and making sense of emotions, in developmental order.
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Pillar 5
Connection and Communication
ResearchCommunication ScienceBehaviour, language and interaction as communication, and a way to connect.
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Pillar 6
Esteem and Identity
ResearchIdentity and Reflective PracticeSelf-awareness, belonging and a positive sense of self.
What people say about the framework
“The Bounce Framework course is excellent! It integrates inclusion, attachment, polyvagal theory, and scaffolding with practical strategies that are easy to implement. A perfect mix of theory and practice. I feel inspired and ready to apply what I’ve learned in my work with children and families.”
Effrosyni ChamalakiCourse feedback · January 2026
“This is a brilliant course. It has helped me so much with my job as an INA, but also as a parent and an autistic myself. There are many more courses I am going to do to help reinforce this and install what I have learnt here. Highly recommend this course!”
Joanne KilpatrickCertified BOUNCE Approach Practitioner · June 2025
How we help
We help you identify the need. Then meet it.
Behaviour tells you there is a need. We help you find it, meet it and see what changes.
Identify the need
Meet the need
Plan
We help you plan the support
With or without an EHCP, turn the need into clear targets and one plan.
EHCP and SEND tools →Do
We help you put it in place
Support matched to the need, ready to use the same day.
Open the Studio →Review
We help you check it works
Run the same Snapshot at mid-term and see what has changed, while there is still time to adapt.
Snapshot report →↻ The review becomes your next starting point
Every link opens a working demo. No account needed.
Where it has reached
Used in homes, classroomsand services across the UK
- 1000sFamilies supported since 2019
- 1000sProfessionals using the framework
- 100sCase studies recording what changed
- 7Funded projects delivered since 2019
Research partnership · 2026
Leeds Beckett University · Accelerated Industry Placement
A university research partnership exploring a question we kept coming back to: can one assessment really tell us enough about a child’s SEMH needs? The placement is exploring the earliest signs of difficulty, what adults notice first, and how different needs can show up in different ways.
It is early, and we will say so. The placement is still running, and we will share what it shows.
One connected approach
- Assess
- →Plan
- →Do
- →Review
See the behaviour differently. Meet the need. Notice what changes.
Try every step in the demo first. No account needed. Then choose the membership that fits: yours, or your whole setting.
New to BOUNCE? Start with the free course.
Introduction to BOUNCE →Free to start. No account needed.