Q1. Why is cultural context important to understanding responsive interaction intervention with young children with disabilities and their families? Cultural context has everything to do with responsive interaction intervention, since family members are often central to this approach to intervention. Values, expectations, and norms of interaction vary across cultures for children at different ages, and may also vary when children have disabilities. Different views of what is appropriate and valued in children in general and in children with disabilities in particular will influence how we interpret what family members do with children, and will guide our own approaches to interaction and intervention. For example, how family members perceive their children's current and future abilities and roles may determine when, where, and with whom responsive interaction intervention should occur. Cultural perspectives of intervention itself may influence how interventionists go about planning and implementing the intervention. For example, they may form the context for whether and how we use intervention strategies such as demonstrating, coaching, or modeling.