The intervention will be delivered by COPCA coaches who follow the programme's theoretical and practical principles. Caregivers learnt how to stimulate their infant's development by challenging their motor behaviour with trial and error experiences.

This aim to empower the caregivers' competencies to stimulate the infant's daily development, by increasing their motor repertoire.

and enhancing their capacity to adapt movements to situations.

Standard care will be based on what paediatric physiotherapists generally assume to be useful to promote the development of infants with special needs. Standard care is heterogeneous and eclectic, uses parent training and often includes components of neurodevelopmental treatment with hands-on techniques.

The early intervention programme for infants and young children focuses on the active inclusion of the whole family. The coaching of parents is a central component. Parents learn how they can independently and optimally support their child's development as part of the child's everyday life. The programme was developed at the beginning of the 2000s in the Netherlands by child physiotherapist Tineke Dirks and professor of developmental neurology Mijna Hadders-Algra.

INFANT MOTOR PROFILE Results achieved between the 10% and 90% percentiles indicate adequate motor development. Results between the 5% and 10% percentiles indicate a risk for delays or problems in gross motor development.

Family Empowerment Scale

There are 28 items to be answered by the family with these options:

1= Strongly Agree' 2= Agree' 3= Disagree' 4= Strongly Disagree. The higher the score, the greater the empowerment.