A --
AAC -- Augmentative and Alternative Communication
ABR -- Auditory Brainstem Response
ADA -- Americans with Disabilities Act
AFK -- Away From Keyboard
ALD -- Assistive Listening Device
ARD - Admission, Review, and Dismissal
ASHA -- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
ASL -- American Sign Language
AUD -- Audiology
A-V -- Auditory-Verbal
AVI -- Auditory Verbal International
A/V Therapy -- Auditory/Verbal Therapy
AVT-CERT -- Auditory Verbal Therapist certified by Auditory Verbal International
B --
BI/BI -- Bilingual - Bicultural
BOHICA -- Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!
BRB -- Be Right Back!
BTE -- Behind The Ear
BWP or BWSP -- Body Worn Processor or Body Worn Speech Processor
- C --
CAPD -- Central Auditory Processing Delay
CASE -- Conceptually Accurate Signed English
CCC -- Certificate of Clinical Competence
CFR -- Code of Federal Regulations
- CFY -- Clinical Fellowship Year
CI -- Cochlear Implant
CIC -- Completely In the Canal
CODA -- Child Of Deaf Adult
CP -- Cerebral Palsy
CPSE -- Committee on Preschool Special Education
CRC -- Children's Resource Coordinator
CS -- Cued Speech
CSE -- Committee on Special Education
CSPD -- Comprehensive System of Personnel Development
CYA -- Cover Your A**
D --
DAI -- Direct Audio Input
dB -- Decibels
DE -- Department of Education
DH -- Dear Husband (or Darned) ;)
DoD - Dept. of Defense
DOE -- Department of Education
E --
ECI -- Early Childhood Intervention
EDGAR -- Education Department General Administrative Regulations
EFMP -- Exceptional Family Member Program (DoD Only)
EI -- Early Intervention
ESL -- English as a Second Language
ESY -- Extended School Year
F --
FAPE -- Free Appropriate Public Education
FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
FERPA -- Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (federal)
FM -- Frequency Modulation
FOIA -- Freedom of Information Act (federal and/or state) [pronounced foy-uh]
FR -- Federal Register
FYI -- For Your Information
G --
GA -- Go Ahead
G & O's -- Goals and Objectives
H --
HA -- Hearing Aid
HI -- Hearing Impaired
HoH -- Hard of Hearing
I --
IDEA -- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (formerly the Education for the
Handicapped Act) (Federal)
IDELR -- Individuals With Disabilities Education Law Report
IEE -- Independent Educational Evaluation
IEP -- Individualized Education Program
IEPC -- Individualized Education Planning Committee
IEPT -- Individualized Education Planning Team
IEU -- Intermediate Educational Unit
IFSP -- Individualized Family Service Plan
IMHO -- In My Humble Opinion
ISD -- Depends on the state. In TX and MS it stands for Independent School District. In MI
it stands for Intermediate School District.
ITC -- In the Canal
ITE -- In the Ear
L --
LEA -- Local Education Agency (school district)
LOL -- Laughing Out Loud
LRE -- Least Restrictive (educational) Environment
luL -- This one really isn't an acronym. It's an
"emoticon", representing the handshape of the sign "I love you"  . Another form of
this is _\--/
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M --
MCE -- Manual Codes for English
N --
NPRM -- Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
O --
OAE -- Otoacoustic Emissions
OCR -- Office for Civil Rights
OMB -- Office of Management and Budget
OSEP -- Office of Special Education Programs (federal)
OSERS -- Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (federal)
OT -- Occupational Therapy
P --
PFTH - Program for the Handicapped (for DoD only)
PLAP - Present Level of Academic Performance
PLP - Present Level of Performance
PSE -- Pidgin Signed English
PT -- Physical Therapy
S --
SAHM -- Stay at Home Mom
SEA -- State Education Agency
SEE I -- Seeing Essential English
SEE II -- Signing Exact English
SHHH -- Self Help for Hard of Hearing People
SI -- Sensory Integration
SK -- Stop Keying
S/LP or SLP -- Speech/Language Pathologist
SOP -- Standard Operating Procedures
SPED -- Special Education
SRT -- Speech Reception Threshold
T --
TC -- Total Communication
TDD -- Telecommunications Device for the Deaf
TOD -- Teacher of the Deaf
TTFN -- Ta-Ta For Now
TTY -- An older name for TDD. Derived from the word Teletype
TYVM -- Thank You Very Much
U --
USC -- United States Code
- V --
- VRA -- Visual Reinforcement Audiometry
W --
WAHM -- Work at Home Mom
Other --
§ -- Section
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