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Oregon Health Sciences University, has been developing a virtual
community of practice to facilitate use of the CM and to grow
practitioner knowledge through dialogue. As a part of the grant, the
project is also providing face-to-face
training, online professional
development, and coaching, to specific school sites so that teams
will be able to use the CM Suite of tools to improve communication
outcomes for their
students. In turn, sites and teams will share
information on the use of the CM tools on a regular basis, and will
offer evaluation data on their satisfaction and reflections on the use
of these tools. School teams and parents at selected sites across
the country are the charter members of the new CM Community of
Practice (CMCoP). The online platform se
rves as a means of
sharing partcipants' thinking and discoveries in order to grow their
capacity to address the communication needs of this low incidence
population of students. By discovering what practitioners are
learning in a shared community space, the project seeks to expand
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