06 Oct 😳 Been told that your child with special needs doesn’t need Paediatric Physiotherapy more often than once a fortnight or once a month 🥴Been attending Paediatric Physiotherapy for your child with Special Needs for over 6 months now and still not seeing any progress in their gross motor skills

Research has shown that in the first few years of life, 👶🏻more than 1 million new neural connections in the brain are formed every second. After this period of rapid proliferation, connections are reduced through a process called pruning, so that brain circuits become more efficient. 🧠The brain is most flexible, or “plastic,” early in life to accommodate a wide range of environments and interactions. Scientists now know a major ingredient in this developmental process is the “serve and return” relationship between children and their parents and other caregivers in the family or community.

This means that a child is most capable of learning new skills when they are exposed to early intervention in the first 3-5 years of life.👶🏻 And the more frequent a child is exposed to stimulus and early intervention therapies the more a child’s brain is able to create and prune neural connections which leads to improved gross motor skills, fine motor skills and speech and language skills.

Here at My Favourite Physio, we often see our little ones with special needs 2-4 times a week depending on their needs and their age. And we have often times, achieved outcomes like helping a little one achieve walking independently even when their medical team predicted at their birth that they will never walk.💪 It’s like going to the gym to get fit for most adults, someone attending the gym once a week or once a fortnight will not be able to achieve the same fitness goals as someone who attend the gym 2-4 times a week.

So if you have a child with special needs and you would like to see them achieve their best potential, ring My Favourite Physio 📱on (02) 9790 4233 or DM us @myfavouritephysio today to speak to one of our Expert Paediatric Physiotherapists. 🤓

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