Bringing Instructional Strategies Home

Families of children with disabilities play a critical role in fostering development and promoting independence across the life span of their children. Although implementing collaborative supports can be challenging for families and practitioners, online family education is a tool that can address many of these challenges. The purpose of this article is to highlight essential questions for determining when and how practitioners can reach families online using the Internet-based Parent-implemented Communication Strategies (i-PiCS) program as a guide. The frameworks, resources, and decision tools presented in this paper may help teachers maximize the effectiveness of their online education efforts, and bring instructional strategies from school into the home, which may lead to promising child learning outcomes.