Integrated Weekly Programme

🖨️ Print tip: Use Ctrl/Cmd + P → "Print to PDF" to save this timetable for your therapy folder or home workspace.

📅 5-Day Sample Timetable

This is one example of how a week might look — adapt timing and activities to your child's school schedule, energy patterns, and current targets. Build your own version further down the page.

Time	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
7:30–7:45	⚡ Movement primer Jumping jacks × 20	🧘 Yoga sequence Yoga for hyperactivity	⚡ Movement primer Heavy work stations	🧘 Yoga sequence Yoga for hyperactivity	⚡ Movement primer Outdoor walk/jog
8:00–8:20	🎯 Focus block Mindful colouring	🎯 Focus block LEGO instruction build	🎯 Focus block Mindful colouring	🎯 Focus block LEGO instruction build	🎯 Focus block Jenga attention tower
Midmorning	🗣️ Speech Barrier games	👂 Listening Story listening with a catch	🗣️ Speech Conversation scripts & social stories	👂 Listening Direction obstacle course	📖 Story retelling With props
After lunch	💡 Comprehension Question dice game	💡 Comprehension Odd one out reasoning	💡 Comprehension Emotion detective	💡 Comprehension Concept web building	🤝 Social Role-play / free play
Late afternoon	⚡ Attention Jumping jack-to-statue intervals	⚡ Attention Slow robot / fast robot	⚡ Sensory Sensory plan activity	⚡ Attention Jumping jack-to-statue intervals	🎉 Celebration Child's free choice
Evening (5 min)	📋 Focus Challenge Log — rate the day, identify one win, set tomorrow's goal

🔑 Programme principles:
(1) Movement before mind work — always prime the nervous system before cognitive tasks.
(2) Consistent rhythm — same structure each day, flexible content.
(3) Celebrate forward — focus on what was achieved, not what wasn't.
(4) One new strategy at a time — introduce changes weekly, not all at once.

🧩 Build Your Own Weekly Plan

Expand a domain below, pick the specific strategies and activities that fit your child, then generate a real weekly plan you can save, print, and track — no need to describe it to Mitra in chat.

📝 How to use the progress monitor: At the end of each month, sit with your child (where appropriate) and review their log, session notes, and your observations. Rate each domain and note what changed. Progress is rarely linear — celebrate any upward movement, however small.

📊 8-Domain Progress Monitor

Rate your child's progress in each domain monthly (1 = emerging, 5 = consistent). The bars below show a sample profile — replace with your own observations.

💭 Attention

Sustained focus duration; distraction recovery speed; task completion rate.

⚡ Impulse Control

Wait time before acting; frequency of interruptions; stop-signal response.

🏃 Hyperactivity

Seated duration; fidget tool use; movement break effectiveness.

🗣️ Expressive Language

Mean length of utterance; vocabulary range; narrative structure.

👂 Listening

Multi-step instruction following; check-back frequency; listening span.

💡 Understanding

Literal comprehension accuracy; inferential question response; vocabulary depth.

🎯 Focus / Concentration

Pomodoro block duration; self-initiated focus log completion; interest-bridging uptake.

🤝 Social Communication

Conversation turn-taking; topic maintenance; joint attention episodes per session.

🏥 Professional Referral Guide

These strategies are designed to support — not replace — professional intervention. Know when to refer.

🧠 Developmental Paediatrician

Diagnosis and medical management of ADHD and ASD. First point of contact for families seeking formal assessment — may administer or refer for an ADOS-2 (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule), the gold-standard clinician-administered observation used to confirm an autism diagnosis.

When to refer: Concerns about development before age 5, or when behaviour significantly impacts daily functioning.

🗣️ Speech-Language Pathologist

Assessment and therapy for expressive/receptive language delay, speech sound disorders, AAC, and pragmatic language.

When to refer: No words by 15 months, no 2-word combinations by 24 months, or any regression in language skills.

🖐️ Occupational Therapist

Sensory processing, fine motor skills, self-care routines, and school readiness. Partners with sensory integration work.

When to refer: Sensory defensiveness, significant self-care difficulties, or handwriting well below age expectations.

🧩 Educational Psychologist

Cognitive and learning assessment, IEP development, school placement advice, and evidence-based intervention planning.

When to refer: Significant academic gap despite consistent home support, or suspected learning disability alongside ASD/ADHD.

💬 Psychologist / Behaviour Therapist

ABA, CBT, PRT, and social skills groups. Also supports family wellbeing and parent burnout.

When to refer: Self-injurious behaviour, persistent anxiety, school refusal, or family system stress.

👨‍👩‍👧 Parent Support Groups

Peer support from families with lived experience. Often the most practically useful resource available.

When to refer: Any time — early connection with a parent community reduces isolation and burnout.

💜 A note to families: You are doing extraordinarily hard work. The fact that you are reading this, planning this, and showing up for your child every day is already the most powerful intervention there is. These strategies are tools — you are the irreplaceable constant.

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