Finally, a critical element highlighted in nearly all effective online collaborative scenarios is the inclusion of the family. Communication disorders do not clock out at 3 p.m. A scenario from a telehealth training platform might show an SLP coaching a parent on how to use language-expansion techniques during the nightly homework routine. In a collaborative school model, this parent training is coordinated with the classroom teacher’s weekly newsletter. The teacher notes that the class is working on narrative storytelling; the SLP sends home a simple graphic organizer for story retell; the parent practices it at the dinner table. This triadic collaboration—SLP, teacher, family—creates a 360-degree scaffold around the child, ensuring that communication skills are reinforced not just in one room, but across all of the child’s waking environments.
To improve student outcomes by generalizing communication skills across settings (classroom, playground, home) rather than isolating therapy in a separate room.
Some common types of communication disorders that may be encountered in schools include: