Child Language Teaching and Therapy
Negotiating and building SLT–teacher trust relationships for effective interprofessional collaboration when delivering a tier-1 interactive reading program
Collaboration between teachers and school-based speech-language therapists (SLTs) is essential to high-quality universal tier-1 practices that support children's language and literacy skills in inclusive settings. Trust is central to interprofessional collaboration and successful implementation of new practices. This exploratory qualitative study used a secondary data analysis from two studies, each offering a complementary perspective on how teachers and SLTs negotiate and build trust when they collaborate to impl …