Treatment Pathways

A Treatment Pathway describes how often and how long your child needs treatment. Our goal is to provide family focused services. You and your child’s therapy provider will decide the best pathway for your family. Your child may move between pathways over time. Your child may be in a different pathway for each type of therapy. Treatment works best when:

• You go to all therapy sessions
• You share changing needs with your therapy provider
• You practice your home program often

Intensive pathway

This pathway is best when:

• Your child needs multiple sessions per week for a short amount of time
• Your child is changing quickly
• Your child’s safety is at risk after new diagnosis, surgery, or illness
• Your family needs intense education

Frequent pathway

This pathway is best when:

• Your child needs 2 to 4 sessions per month
• Your child is making consistent progress
• Your child will not lose skills
• Your family needs frequent education
• Your child’s equipment needs to be changed

Periodic pathway

This pathway is best when:

• Your child needs one or less sessions per month
• Your child makes progress without frequent therapy
• Community activities are meeting some of your child’s needs
• You leave the clinic with your next appointment scheduled

Consultative pathway

This pathway is best when:

• Your child does not need regularly scheduled appointments
• Your child needs occasional check-ups
• Community activities are meeting your child’s needs
• You have new concerns
• You can call our clinic to make these appointments

Discharge

This will happen when:

• Your child has met their goals
• Your child does not need therapy
• Your child is not making progress right now
• Your family chooses to stop therapy

Return to treatment

This will happen when:

• Your child has new needs
• You have new concerns
• The reasons you needed to stop therapy are resolved

We strive to schedule appointment series for our patients, but are sometimes unable to do so. If your child is on the treatment waitlist, or you were unable to schedule at the recommended frequency, we may offer you single appointment scheduling (SAS). With single appointment scheduling, You will be able to schedule one appointment at a time if there is an opening available.

To schedule a single appointment, please call the scheduling center at 253-697-5200 during business hours (Monday-Friday 7:30am-5pm). If there is availability, our scheduling team will help you schedule an appointment during this week or next.

Please note: Using single appointment scheduling is part of your treatment pathway visits. It will count towards the total sessions recommended at your initial evaluation. You may be able to complete all your recommended treatment sessions using this process.