This report presents the three intervention-study tasks related to the development, exploratory implementation and evaluation of the prototype of a Virtual Learning (and communication) Environment (VLE) in family, community and school settings.

The VLE was intended to support and enhance research interventions in several pre/school and community contexts. It was developed based on a common overarching conceptual framework, to contribute to a coherent and comprehensive support system for professionals, children and families from different systems perspectives and to encourage collaboration between sectors (e.g. early education and family support). The VLE was designed to integrate various solutions to support communication and collaboration by providing multiple means of engagement, representation, action and expression, following the Universal Design for Learning principles.

Besides the educational potential of the platform, its development allowed to shed light on potentials, shortcomings and possible problems that can be faced while developing technological solutions addressing linguistic superdiversity.