Superlearning with Treasure Island CIMT

Children aged 4-9 years with hemiplegia (or monoplegia), who are able to understand and follow simple instructions and cope in a group environment.

Children must attend the entire 9-day program.

Hemiplegia is a neurological condition that refers to weakness or paralysis of one side of the body, and is known as either congenital or acquired.

Congenital hemiplegia can happen anytime before, during or soon after birth (up to two years of age).

Hemiplegia can also be acquired at any stage in a child’s life, and can be caused by traumatic brain injury, childhood stroke, seizures, infections affecting the brain, or a hemispherectomy.

Limbs affected by hemiplegia may have weakness, a reduction of voluntary movement, or poor coordination and motor skills.

The benefits of CIMT Treasure Island include:

• Improved range of movement
• Improved muscle strength
• Improved quality of movement
• Increased amount of use of weaker arm
• Increased motivation to use the weaker arm in function
• Improved independence in everyday tasks

Improvements that can be achieved will highly depends on the amount of movement initially available and the child’s engagement during and outside the sessions.

CIMT includes a total of 56 hours of service:

• 45 hours of one-on-one* therapy in a group setting runs over a nine-day period
• 11 hours of one-on-one pre-assessment, goal setting and post-assessment meetings, parent coaching and an NDIS service summary report for your NDIS planning meeting.

*Group ratio is two children to one therapist however, each child will be supported one-to one-throughout the entire program alternating between an occupational therapist, allied health assistant and a 3^rd or 4^th year allied health student.

• The use of a hand mitt or arm sling to constrain the non-affected arm while engaging your child with fun activities to motivate them to use their affected arm
• A custom-designed home program to further develop their skills at home
• Coaching for you to maximise the benefits of the home program
• Reassessment at the end to see how much your child has progressed.

• Intensive therapy accelerates improvements in gross motor skills in a short time period resulting in long lasting results.
• During the preschool years a child learns various new gross motor skills which are vital for playing with their peers and building self-esteem.
• Children who have already developed strong gross motor skills but just need to stabilise or perfect a skill often benefit most from intensive therapy.
• Between the ages 6 -12 years children fine tune and perfect their gross motor skills. This is a key time to work on strengthening and improving skills obtained in early childhood.