This chapter examines data collected in community-based group homes for adults described as having moderate and mild intellectual disabilities. Review of sixty hours of videotaped interaction between staff and residents of the homes suggests, in line with the literature on staff–client interaction, three broad classes of staff behaviour which may – in order of their relative frequency – be glossed as: (1) babying/parenting; (2) instruction giving, and (3) collaboration/pedagogy. While such descriptions may be taken to imply that these are readily discriminable and categorically distinct genres of action this is not what is intended here. Rather these interactional styles shade into each other, and particular episodes of interaction may show evidence of aspects of more than one ‘style’.