Paediatric Intensive
Therapy Blocks
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.
2027 Intensive Block Dates
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4th January - 15th January
18th January - 29th January (9 days)
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1st February - 12th February
15th February - 26th February
2nd March - 12th March (9 days)
15th March - 26th March
29th March - 9th April
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12th April - 23rd April
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26th April - 7th May
10th May - 21st May
24th May - 4th June (9 days)
7th June - 18th June
21st June - 2nd July
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5th July - 16th July
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19th July - 30th July
2nd August - 13th August
16th August - 27th August
30th August - 10th September
13th September - 24th September
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27th September - 8th October (9 days)
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11th October - 22nd October
25th October - 5th November
8th November - 19th November
22nd November - 3rd December
6th December - 17th December
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.
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Centred on meaningful activities that matter to your child and family.
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Daily or twice-daily sessions to reinforce learning and progress.
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Using games, challenges, and creativity to make therapy fun.
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Building skills such as crawling, standing, walking, and transitional movements.
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Improving physical capacity through safe, tailored activities.
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Helping children stay calm, focused, and engaged during therapy.
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Using walkers, gait trainers, and tools to promote independence.
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Including treadmill training, body-weight support training in the Universal Exercise Unit, CME/DMI, Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT), and Bimanual Therapy.
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Empowering caregivers to continue progress at home.
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Combining physiotherapy, occupational therapy and exercise physiology expertise for holistic results.
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Regular reviews to celebrate wins and adjust goals as needed.
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
