Intensive Therapy
What is Intensive
Therapy ?
Intensive therapy offers a transformative approach to supporting children’s development. Unlike traditional weekly sessions, intensive therapy immerses your child in highly focused and frequent sessions over a shorter timeframe. This concentrated effort allows for significant progress in a compressed period.
Moreover, intensive therapy provides a unique opportunity to address multiple goals simultaneously, such as building physical strength, enhancing sensory processing, and developing functional skills. This holistic approach enables children to carry the skills they learn into their everyday lives, improving their participation in activities at home, school, and in the community.
Intensive Therapy Supports Infants and Toddlers With the Following Conditions:
Cerebral Palsy
Hypotonia (low muscle tone)
Hypoxic or Premature Birth
Genetic Disorders
Developmental Delays (Delayed Milestones)
Chromosomal or Genetic Conditions (e.g., Down Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome)
Rare or Complex Syndromes (e.g., Rett Syndrome, Angelman Syndrome)
Neuromuscular Disorders (e.g., Muscular Dystrophy, Spinal Muscular Atrophy)
Why Intensive Therapy
to help your child?
Faster and More Meaningful Progress
The high frequency and intensity of these sessions allow your child to practice and master skills faster, with noticeable improvements in movement, coordination, and independence in daily activities.
Personalised and Holistic Approach
Through active involvement, parents learn effective strategies to support their child’s progress at home, creating a nurturing environment where the benefits of therapy extend far beyond the program itself.
Empowers Families for Long-Term Success
Intensive therapy focuses on your child’s unique needs, targeting multiple areas such as physical, sensory, and social development. This comprehensive strategy helps your child thrive in all aspects of life.
Our 3-Step Process
Our family centred process involves getting to know you and your child, setting goals for your child and then making a customised plan to achieve those goals.
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Fill Out the Intake Form
Complete the intake form to provide us with important information and ensure a smooth start to your child’s journey.
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Assessment
During your child’s first session, we will discover your child’s strengths and needs via a comprehensive assessment.
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Get Started
Together, we will establish a treatment plan for future sessions to enable your child to move toward their goals.
Intensive Therapy Blocks at
Alignment Kids
The structured nature of intensive therapy is particularly powerful for children who benefit from repetition, consistency, and high levels of engagement. Repeated practice during intensive sessions helps create and strengthen neural pathways, leading to improved motor skills, coordination, and overall independence.
Finally, intensive therapy is as much about empowering families as it is about supporting children. It equips parents with practical tools and strategies to continue fostering their child’s development beyond the therapy sessions, ensuring lasting impact and progress.
Intensive Therapy Sunshine Coast
Alignment Kids provides intensive therapy services on the Sunshine Coast. Please contact us for more information or to discuss whether this therapy aligns with your child’s individual needs and goals.
FAQs
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Intensive Therapy Blocks involve a series of concentrated sessions over a shorter timeframe compared to traditional weekly appointments. This immersive approach aims to help children practice targeted skills more frequently and consistently, which can lead to improvements in motor skills, coordination, and participation in everyday activities.
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Unlike single weekly appointments, intensive blocks allow for repeated practice and high levels of engagement within a condensed schedule. This structure can help create and strengthen neural pathways, fostering progress in areas such as physical strength, sensory processing, and functional skills.
Note: Every child responds differently. Progress depends on individual factors like age, diagnosis, and family support.
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Children often benefit from repetition, consistency, and high levels of engagement, which can enhance the development of new skills. By continuously practising specific tasks, children may build stronger neural connections that support increased coordination, motor control, and overall independence.
Please note travel charges will be incurred.
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Children with developmental or neurological conditions—such as cerebral palsy, developmental delays, genetic conditions, or low muscle tone—may find intensive therapy particularly beneficial. The structured nature of these blocks offers focused opportunities to work on multiple goals, such as building physical strength, refining motor skills, or improving sensory integration.
Important: Suitability varies. We recommend discussing your child’s unique needs with a qualified therapist or medical professional.
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Intensive therapy doesn’t just support the child—it also equips parents and caregivers with practical strategies and techniques they can use at home. This empowering approach helps maintain and reinforce your child’s progress beyond the clinic, ensuring they continue to benefit from new skills in real-life settings.
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A wide range of goals can be tackled—such as improving balance, increasing muscle strength, enhancing sensory processing, or refining functional skills (e.g., feeding, dressing). The holistic nature of intensive therapy means multiple goals can be addressed simultaneously, leading to benefits in daily activities at home, school, and in the community.
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The exact length can vary, but many intensive blocks span 1–4 weeks, with sessions taking place daily or multiple times per week. The final schedule is typically tailored to your child’s tolerance, developmental stage, and individual goals.
The most researched length and duration of intensive block therapy is between 2-3 hours per day, 5 days a week, for 3 weeks. However, each child is unique and should be treated as such.
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Every child is unique, and therapists strive to balance the intensity of sessions with rest periods to prevent fatigue. Activities are adapted to your child’s comfort level and pace. If you have concerns, it’s best to discuss them with your therapy team to ensure an optimal schedule.
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Absolutely. One of the key benefits of intensive therapy is that parents gain practical tools to support ongoing development at home. Your therapist will suggest follow-up exercises and strategies, helping your child maintain momentum between formal sessions.