# How should a therapist prioritise a child who is in the green zone for jumping?

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A child in the green zone for jumping is within the expected range, so it should be de-prioritised to a maintain-and-monitor tier rather than dropped — redirect session time to amber/red domains, use the secure skill as a confidence anchor, and re-screen at review. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.

*A green-zone result is not a finishing line — it is a green light to consolidate, stretch and watch the next motor threshold.*

## In short
A child in the **green zone for jumping** is performing within the expected range for their age, so jumping does not warrant a primary therapy goal. Prioritise it as a **maintain-and-monitor** item: keep it as a warm-up or motivational anchor, redirect intensive session time toward amber/red domains, and re-screen at the next review cycle. Green never means discharge by default — it means evidence-led de-prioritisation within a whole-child plan.

## How to prioritise a green-zone skill
- **De-prioritise, don't drop.** Allocate primary session minutes to amber and red domains where the child needs the most scaffolding; jumping moves to a maintenance tier.
- **Leverage it as a strength.** Use the secure skill as a confidence-builder and transition activity — bilateral jumping can be a low-demand bridge into harder motor or attention tasks.
- **Stretch within range.** If the child enjoys it, progress complexity (jump-and-turn, sequence jumps, jump-to-target) to build dynamic balance, motor planning and bilateral coordination without making it a deficit goal.
- **Cross-domain check.** Confirm the green jumping result is consistent with related gross-motor markers (hopping, stair negotiation, single-leg stance); an isolated strength alongside lagging neighbours can shape your next hypothesis.
- **Set a re-screen interval.** Document the green status, give the parent a simple home-play continuation, and flag for routine re-assessment rather than active intervention.

## When to revisit
Bring jumping back into active focus if a later review shows regression, if the child's motivation or postural quality drops, or if it becomes a functional barrier in a target activity. Otherwise, your prioritisation logic should always favour the domains that most limit participation and daily function.

## The Pinnacle way
AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional — the green/amber/red banding you act on is the output of a clinician-administered structured assessment, never an app score. Use the [whole-child profile](/ask/what-is-the-abilityscore-and-how-is-it-calculated) to balance session time across domains, anchor gross-motor progression within [physiotherapy](/physiotherapy), and explore how each [milestone](/) sits in the wider developmental picture.

## Trusted sources
WHO ICD-11 and developmental milestone guidance; CDC "Learn the Signs. Act Early." gross-motor milestone resources; American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) on motor development.

**Next step —** Reviewing a child's motor plan? [Align jumping and the full gross-motor profile through Pinnacle physiotherapy](/physiotherapy).

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

## Sources
- CDC milestone guidance on gross-motor development: https://www.cdc.gov/child-development
- AAP HealthyChildren.org on motor development: https://www.healthychildren.org
- WHO ICD-11 developmental reference: https://icd.who.int

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- Green Zone for Jumping — What to Do Next: https://pinnacleblooms.org/ask/my-child-is-in-the-green-zone-for-jumping-what-should-we-do-next

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