How a personalised therapy plan is created for your child

Your child is not a template — so their therapy plan begins with truly seeing who they are, then building forward from their strengths.

In short

A personalised therapy plan is created after a clinician-administered structured assessment (the AbilityScore®) maps your child's strengths and needs across communication, movement, learning, behaviour and daily living. From that profile, your therapy team and you together set clear, small, achievable goals, choose the right mix of therapies, and agree how often you'll meet and review progress. The plan is a living document — it grows and changes as your child does.

How the plan comes together

• Understanding your child first — a qualified clinician observes, listens and assesses across developmental areas, and listens closely to your concerns, hopes and everyday routines.
• A clear profile of strengths and needs — the AbilityScore® gives a structured picture, so support is shaped around how your child actually learns and plays, not a generic checklist.
• Goals you help set — together you choose a few meaningful, achievable targets (a first word, sitting steadily, calmer mealtimes) with realistic timelines.
• The right mix of therapies — speech, occupational, physiotherapy, behavioural or special education in the combination and intensity that fits your child.
• Your role written in — simple home routines so progress continues between sessions; you are your child's most powerful therapist.
• Regular review — the team re-checks progress and adjusts goals, so the plan keeps pace with your child.

The Pinnacle way

AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional — never from an app or form. Built on 2.5 billion+ data points and 25 million+ therapy sessions, your child's plan starts with how the AbilityScore® is created and may draw on programmes like speech therapy — always tailored to your child.

Trusted sources

WHO Nurturing Care Framework on individualised early support; American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) on developmental monitoring and family-centred care; ASHA guidance on goal-led therapy planning.

Next step — Ready to build your child's personalised plan? Book a developmental assessment with a Pinnacle clinician.

This is general information, not a diagnosis — individual assessment and diagnosis require an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.