Most evaluations of the effectiveness of early intervention have focused on outcomes for children. While appropriate, this focus has expanded in recent years to include family-oriented programs and services, suggesting that early intervention also has a responsibility to support families of children with disabilities. Toward that end, we propose two broad types of family outcomes and eight questions we believe to be consistent with current values, theories, and models of family functioning and relationships between families and professionals across the life span, and reflect outcomes that early intervention could be expected to impact.