Portage guide to early intervention: cross-cultural aspects and intra-cultural variability

Summary The issues arising from implementing an early intervention service, developed in the rural United States in the late 1960s in a range of different cultural contexts over a period of a quarter of a century, are explained. Services from India, Bangladesh, Jamaica and the United Kingdom are compared. As well as considering cross‐cultural aspects of Portage, variability within one country, the United Kingdom, is considered by comparing one service in an inner‐city area and one in a rural area.