Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences and meanings of parents of children with developmental delays who participated in the play-oriented parent coaching program, and based on this, to search for directions and strategies for the parent coaching program. As a result of observing and interviewing seven parents who participated in parent coaching and analyzing them using a hermeneutic phenomenological method, it was found that parents experienced ‘accepting unfamiliar programs’, ‘revealing the difficulties of being a parent of a child with developmental delays’, and ‘seeing my child as he is, not as a disabled child’. As a result of reinterpreting these parental experiences, the meanings of 'looking inside yourself', ‘acquiring play skills’, ‘internalizing new parenting styles’ were revealed. This study is meaningful in that it is a strategy for effective parent coaching program operation, participating in actual play with parents of children with developmental delays and their children, focusing on the development and happiness of children, coaching teachers through positive interactions, and suggesting individual customized coaching using cooperative faculty.
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