What if a child won’t do repetitions?

Resistance to repetition in therapy is often related to task difficulty or fatigue rather than behaviour alone.

Repetition is critical for motor learning in CAS, but resistance to repetition is common.

This is often not about behaviour, but about task difficulty, fatigue, or reduced success.

Rather than increasing expectations, I usually:

• modify the target to make it achievable

• reduce complexity (e.g. simplify syllable shape)

• vary how repetitions are presented

• embed repetition naturally within play

The aim is still high practice, but the pathway to achieving it needs to be flexible.