ORIGINAL ARTICLE Supporting Spanish-Speaking Families with Children with Disabilities: Evaluating a Training and Coaching Program Hedda Meadan 1 & Nicole B. Adams 1 & Rebecca E. Hacker 1 & Saury Ramos-Torres 1 & Andrea Fanta 2 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019 Abstract Researchers report that caregiver-implemented communication interventions are effec- tive and feasible. However, limited information is available on training and coaching programs for families who speak languages other than English in their homes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a parent training and coaching program originally designed to support English-speaking families, then translated and modified to support Spanish-speaking families with young children with disabilities or speech delays. Specifically, this preliminary evaluation explored the extent to which the program had an impact on the following outcomes for the seven Spanish-speaking caregiver participants: (a) enhanced knowledge of the target communication strategies, (b) enhanced application and correct use of the target communication strategies, and (c) understanding of the feasibility, satisfaction, and perceived impact of the program. Keywords Parent-implemented intervention . Spanish speaking families . Trainig and coaching More than 60 million Americans, almost 20% of the population, consider a language other than English to be their primary language (U.S. Census Bureau 2014). When children are born into a bilingual home and have disabilities, language acquisition can become increasingly difficult if they are receiving services in a non-native language (Padilla et al. 2011). Researchers reported that some professionals have recommended that bilingual families speak exclusively in English with their children with disabilities (Jegatheesan 2011; Kohnert 2010; Lim et al. 2018). However, Lim et al. argued that the Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities https://doi.org/10.1007/s10882-019-09704-1 * Hedda Meadan meadan@illinois.edu 1 Department of Special Education, University of Illinois, 1310 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL 61820, USA 2 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Illinois, 905 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, USA