Paediatric Intensive
Therapy Blocks

Child participating in an intensive therapy block session with a clinician using structured play and equipment

Short-term programs. Long lasting progress.

At Little Bodies Therapy, our intensive therapy blocks are high-frequency, short-term programs designed to accelerate your child’s progress and build meaningful, lasting skills.

These focused blocks combine multiple sessions per week over a set period (typically two weeks) helping children make noticeable improvements in strength, coordination, endurance, and confidence.

Our approach is supportive, play-based, and family-centred, ensuring therapy feels fun, achievable, and tailored to your child’s goals.

2026 Intensive Block Dates

How Intensive Therapy helps

Intensive therapy provides short, focused bursts of therapy that help children build momentum in their learning and development. Each program is carefully designed to meet your child’s unique abilities and motivation, with clear goals created in partnership with families.

Research shows that short, high-frequency therapy blocks can lead to faster, more meaningful progress than traditional weekly sessions — especially when sessions are goal-based, hands-on, and playful. By combining consistent repetition with fun, motivating activities, intensive programs support both neuroplasticity and confidence, helping children carry new skills into everyday life.

Intensive therapy helps children:

  • Accelerate progress: through consistent, daily practice that strengthens learning and motor patterns.

  • Build strength, coordination, and endurance: in a shorter timeframe.

  • Develop confidence and motivation: through visible results and mastery of new skills.

  • Reinforce neuroplasticity: helping the brain and body work together through repetition and task-specific play.

  • Achieve meaningful functional goals:from motor milestones to everyday participation.

  • Support rehabilitation and recovery: after surgery, injury, or periods of reduced activity.

  • Promote carryover at home: through parent coaching and collaborative goal-setting.

Core Methods and Approaches

Our intensives blend the best of physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and exercise physiology into a cohesive, motivating program. Each block is delivered by experienced paediatric therapists who ensure sessions are evidence-based, engaging, and full of variety.

  • Centred on meaningful activities that matter to your child and family.

  • Daily or twice-daily sessions to reinforce learning and progress.

  • Using games, challenges, and creativity to make therapy fun.

  • Building skills such as crawling, standing, walking, and transitional movements.

  • Improving physical capacity through safe, tailored activities.

  • Helping children stay calm, focused, and engaged during therapy.

  • Using walkers, gait trainers, and tools to promote independence.

  • Including treadmill training, body-weight support training in the Universal Exercise Unit, CME/DMI, Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT), and Bimanual Therapy.

  • Empowering caregivers to continue progress at home.

  • Combining physiotherapy, occupational therapy and exercise physiology expertise for holistic results.

  • Regular reviews to celebrate wins and adjust goals as needed.

Child smiles holding their certificate for completing a block of intensive therapy

What to Expect
in Sessions

Your intensive therapy journey begins with an initial planning session, where we assess your child’s strengths, challenges, and goals to design a personalised program.

Session frequency
1 - 3 sessions daily (single or combined disciplines) for a two-week period.

Session times
Typically 9:15–10:00am or 10:00–10:45am during school terms, with extended options and time flexibility available during school holidays.

Ongoing feedback
Therapists track daily outcomes and adjust sessions as needed to maintain challenge and success.

Family participation
Parents are coached in strategies and exercises to continue at home and in everyday routines.

Review and next steps
At the end of each block, progress is summarised, and recommendations are made for ongoing therapy or home programs.

FAQs

  • Each block includes a minimum of one daily session for two weeks — 10 sessions total.

    During school terms, sessions run 9:15–10:00am or 10:00–10:45am, with additional availability during school holidays.

  • Intensive programs can include physiotherapy, exercise physiology, and occupational therapy, depending on your child’s goals. You can focus on one discipline or combine them for a truly integrated approach.

  • Intensive therapy is suitable for children who would benefit from short, focused bursts of therapy to achieve specific functional goals. This includes children with physical disabilities, developmental delays, or challenges with daily activities, play, self-care, or school tasks. 

    Intensive blocks are particularly helpful for children working on strength, balance, coordination, motor milestones, fine or gross motor skills, participation in meaningful and functional activities, and for those who may benefit from rapid progression in a short period of time.

    Intensive therapy can be tailored to single or combined disciplines and is appropriate for children from early intervention to adolescence, depending on their goals and needs.

  • Yes! We run additional intensives during school holidays to allow more children — especially those in school — to participate in these short-term, high-impact programs.

  • If your child thrives with consistency, learns best through repetition, or needs a boost in skill development, an intensive block may be perfect. Contact our team to discuss your child’s goals and we’ll help you decide.

Small child smiling during a therapy session

Start your little one’s journey.

Our intensive therapy blocks help children build skills, strength, and confidence faster through fun, meaningful sessions that make every day count.

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