INTENSIVE THERAPY FOR CHILDREN IN ARIZONA
EVIDENCE-BASED | Child Centered | goAL directed | LIFE CHANGING
Intensive Model of Therapy
UCP of Central Arizona’s uses evidence-based therapies in our intensive model of therapy. Our intensive model of therapy is true to its name. It’s an “intense” time of practice focused on skills that you, your child and their therapist decide are important.
Your child’s therapist will create the “just right” challenge using fun activities that incorporate repetition, leading to motor learning. Motor learning make changes in a child’s neural network needed for skill acquisition. When your child has fun while working hard, they will be more likely to retain those skills and be more motivated to use their new skills at home. Building motivation and confidence will take your child to the next level.
Which Model of Therapy Works for Your Family?
Are you familiar with Episodic Bursts of Therapy? They are an intensive-like “burst” of therapy designed to complement ongoing therapy. Like intensives, the episodic model focuses on 1 or 2 goals that your child is really motivated to accomplish to take advantage of a period of rapid gains or help them overcome a plateau. Families like this option because it allows them to take advantage of school breaks, such as holidays or spring break.
Intensive Therapy Programs
Therapeutic Approaches:
- Constraint Induced Movement Therapy with Bimanual Training
- Mobility Training
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Terapia de alimentacion
Intensive Therapy Intervention and Modalities
- Aquatic Therapy (seasonal)
- Adaptive Equipment
- Goal-Directed Training
- Aretech Zero G Balance and Gait Trainer
- The Levity Gait Trainer
- Treadmill Training
- Neuromuscular and Muscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES)
- Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)
- Kineosiotaping
- Precision Strength Training
- Breathing and Postural Control Methods
- Infant and Pediatric Constraint Induced Movement Therapy
What You Need to Know to Get Started
1. Our support coordinator will guide you on each step of the way.
2. Once you complete intake forms, anad cost summary will be provided within 2 weeks.
Scheduling with Us
UCP of Central Arizona uses best practice guidelines to create an individualized schedule that will help your child meet their goals. Your child’s schedule will be based on 1) therapist recommendations 2) your child’s age, abilities and endurance 3) family resources.
Intensive Therapy and Episodic Bursts of Therapy: Cost Overview
Intensive Therapy is a private pay only service for children that are new patients to UCP of Central Arizona. If evaluations dated within 12 months of the start date are not provided, UCP will provide evaluations for a fee of $300 per evaluation. Plan-of-care can be created with your family via Zoom two weeks prior to the start date of the intensive therapy session or on the first day of the intensive session. Each plan of care for each therapy type cost $100 per plan. Therapy sessions during the intensive program are $130 per hour.
Have More Questions?
Sometimes using phrases such as “evidence-based” or “uses research” can be misleading. The UCP Therapy program is designed using evidence that comes from peer reviewed journal articles that have been reviewed by experts who know the topic being addressed by the article. Our therapy approach typically relies on systematic reviews, scoping reviews y clinical guidelines that use a rigorous method to accumulate the evidence gleaned from various research studies on the same topic. We also focus on current evidence that has occurred in the last 10 years as part of our commitment to be a learning organization.
Does UCP use the DMI approach?
We do not use the Dynamic Movement Intervention (DMI) approach. All UCP’s intensive programs follow the principles of motor learning incorporating child-generated active movements, at a high intensity, that directly target real-life tasks and activities to meet the goals set by the child and/or parent. We avoid taking children through passive movement provided by a therapist moving their body for them. At UCP, we know motivation and attention are necessary for motor learning. We know practice of motor patterns embedded in rewarding and enjoyable activities for your child leads to spontaneous practice in everyday life.
How do we decide what is the best model for my child?
Like most things, there is the “rule of thumb” or guidelines that can be followed. Our guidelines are based on current evidence which means that we do at time change our model based on the evidence.
Intensive Therapy Best Practice Guidelines
- 1 to 3 years old: Up to 42 hours of therapy is recommended.
- 4 to 12 years old: Up to 60 hours of therapy is recommended.
Episodic Best Practice Guidelines
- Not recommended for children younger than 2 years old.
- 2 to 12 years old: 10 to 30 hours of therapy is recommended for 1 to 2 weeks.
Contact UCP of Central Arizona
For more information or to schedule a consultation, please contact us at:
1802 W. Parkside Lane, Phoenix, AZ 85027
Phone: 602-682-1845
Email: [email protected]
