Framework

Definition

Desired outcomes

Coachees

Family Guided Routines Based Intervention

An approach for providing early intervention services within the child and family’s natural environments. 

Support caregivers to engage their young children in learning as they participate in everyday routines and activities that are meaningful to them. 

Caregivers

Kentucky EI Caregiver Coaching

A collaborative approach in which EI providers partner with caregivers to support their children’s development and learning within their everyday routines and activities.

Increase the confidence and competence of families and caregivers of children from birth to age 3 with developmental delays or disabilities to optimize their children's development and learning.

Caregivers

Occupational Performance Coaching

A family-centered, occupation-based, solution-focused intervention that directly targets enabling individuals to achieve their personalized goals related to occupational performance and participation in life situations.

Attainment of occupational performance and participation goals; greater sense of competence and goal-related self-esteem; and enhanced quality of life.

Caregivers

Parents Interacting with Infants

A philosophy and process that is relation-based, centered on responsive, respectful interactions between caregivers and their young children, guiding how professionals support caregivers of children birth to age 3 .

Increase children’s learning and development through responsive parent–child interactions, strengthened by parents’/caregivers’ ability to interpret and respond to their child’s cues, understand their child’s development within the broader context of early learning, and view themselves as competent and confident.

Caregivers

Practice-Based Coaching

A cyclical, repeating process focused on increasing use of effective teaching practices that can be delivered with individuals and groups of practitioners, as well as with an expert coach, with a peer coach, or through self coaching. 

Support effective teaching practices, such as the Pyramid Model and embedded instruction.

Practitioners, caregivers

Routines-Based Intervention

An approach that encourages caregivers to think and talk about what they are doing and how the child is participating and learning in routines and activities.

Support caregivers to work to increase or improve their young child's participation in routines and activities.

Caregivers

Rush & Shelden

An interactive process for building capacity and confidence in practitioners, parents, and other colleagues; the coach's role includes supporting the coachee to reflect on their own actions and create plans for the future.

Develop caregivers' and practitioners' knowledge and skills to promote positive outcomes for children in EI/ECSE.

Caregivers, practitioners

Solution-Focused Coaching

A strengths-based, relational, and goal-oriented approach in pediatric rehabilitation that uses positive reframing and strategic questions to assist clients in envisioning a preferred future and developing practical solutions to move toward this vision.

Build the capacity of coachee to attain participation-related goals and enhance quality of life.

Caregivers