*5.3. Promoting a Global Perspective on Excellent Practices*

Some American-developed models are designed to address American contexts and are difficult to implement outside the U.S. Early intervention in the U.S. can be considered somewhat ethnocentric. Many professionals assume the early intervention landscape internationally is like the U.S. one. However, U.S. perspectives can be international: for example, the headquarters of the International Society on Early Intervention is in Seattle, because that's where its founder and president, Michael Guralnick, works. Further, the scholarly journal *Infants and Young Children* under the editorship of Mary Beth Bruder, deliberately publishes international research and perspectives and even has an international editor (self-disclosure: it is McWilliam).

Many practitioners overseas and in the U.S. are impressed with entertrainment, but we need to focus on specific practices and models. *Entertrainment* is a portmanteau of entertainment and training and refers to an appealing presentation with few practical strategies and no provision for follow-up observation and feedback (i.e., real training). Implementation can only happen if implementers commit to serious, long-term, job-embedded professional development [56].
