BRIGHT Coaching: A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effectiveness of a Developmental Coach System to Empower Families of Children With Emerging Developmental Delay.

ABSTRACT: Background: In preschool-aged children with, or at elevated risk for, developmental disabilities, challenges and needs arise from vulnerabilities linked to critical and newly emerging cognitive, speech, motor, behavioral, and social skills. For families, this can be a stressful period as they witness the gradual unfolding of their child's differences and await to receive care. Nationally and internationally, service delivery models during this critical period are not standardized nor are they nimble or sufficient enough, leading to long wait times, service gaps and duplications. Given these struggles, there is a need to examine whether "health coaching", a structured educational program that is deliverable by different and more accessible means, can be effective in empowering famili

SUBMITTER: Majnemer A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6694748 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature