Promise of Relationship-Focused Early Intervention in Developmental Disabilities

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Abstract
This review compares two approaches to parent-infant intervention in developmental disabilities. The first, a parent training approach, instructs parents to carry out therapeutic and/or curriculum-based procedures under the supervision of an intervention specialist. The second, a relationship-focused approach, attempts to foster adaptive parent-infant and parent-professional relationships and to promote generalized parent competence. Several sources of program validation are consulted to support the promise of relationship-focused early intervention in families of developmentally disabled infants. The review describes the characteristics and preliminary findings of a relationship-focused intervention program for high-risk or developmentally disabled infants under the authors' direction.
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