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SYMBOL |
MEANING |
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ACLC |
Assessment of Children’s Language Comprehension |
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AAD |
Adaptive assistive devices |
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ABA |
Applied behavior analysis |
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ADA |
American’s with Disabilities Act |
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ADHD |
Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder |
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ADL |
Activities of daily living |
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AE |
Age Equivalent |
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ASD |
Autism Spectrum Disorder |
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ASL |
American Sign Language |
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AUD.DIS |
Auditory Discrimination |
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BINET |
Stanford Binet Intelligence Test |
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BIP |
Behavior intervention plan |
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BVMGT |
Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test |
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CA |
Chronological Age |
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CAP |
Central auditory processing |
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CAPD |
Central auditory processing disorder |
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C.A.T. |
Children’s Apperception Test |
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CBA |
Curriculum based assessment |
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CP |
Cerebral Palsy |
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CPSE |
Committee on preschool special education |
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CSE |
Committee on Special Education |
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CST |
Child Study Team |
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DAP |
Draw a Person Test |
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Db |
Decibel-Hearing Measurement |
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DDST |
Denver Developmental Screening Test |
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DQ |
Developmental Quotient |
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DTLA-4 |
Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude-4 |
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EC |
Eligibility Committee |
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E.D. |
Emotionally Disturbance |
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EI |
Early intervention |
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EMR |
Educable Mentally Retarded |
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ESL |
English as a second language |
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ESY |
Extended school year |
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FAPE |
Free Appropriate Public Education |
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FBA |
Functional Behavioral Analysis |
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fq |
Frequency Range-Hearing Measurement |
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GE |
Grade Equivalent |
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GFW |
Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination |
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H.H. |
Hard of Hearing |
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HTP |
House-Tree-Person Test |
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Hz |
Hertz-Hearing Measurement |
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IDEA |
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act |
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IEP |
Individual Educational Program |
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IEU |
Intermediate Educational Unit |
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IHE |
Institutions of Higher Education |
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IQ |
Intelligence Quotient |
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ITPA |
Illinois Tests of Psycholinguistic Abilities |
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LA |
Learning Aptitude |
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L.D. |
Learning Disability |
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LEA |
Local Education Agency |
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LPR |
Local Percentile Rank |
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MA |
Mental Age |
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M.B.D. |
Minimal Brain Dysfunction |
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MDT |
Multidisciplinary Team |
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M.H. |
Multiply Handicapped |
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MMPI |
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory |
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MR |
Mental Retardation |
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MVPT |
Motor-Free Visual Perception Test |
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NPR |
National Percentile Rank |
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PIAT-R |
Peabody Individual Achievement Test-Revised |
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PINS |
Person In Need Of Supervision |
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PLA |
Psycholinguistic Age |
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PQ |
Perceptual Quotient |
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PPVT |
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test |
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PR |
Percentile Rank |
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PSEN |
Pupils with Special Educational Needs |
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P.T.A. |
Pure Tone Average-Hearing Measurement |
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SAI |
School Abilities Index |
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SCSIT |
Southern California Sensory Integration Tests |
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SEA |
State Education Agency |
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SIT |
Slosson Intelligence Test |
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S.R.T. |
Speech Reception Threshhold-Hearing Measurement |
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ACL |
Test for Auditory Comprehension Of Language |
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T.A.T. |
Thematic Apperception Test |
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TBI |
Traumatic brain injury |
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TMR |
Trainable Mental Retardation |
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TOWL |
Test of Written Language |
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VAKT |
Visual/Auditory/Kinesthetic/Tactile Reading technique |
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VIS.DIS |
Visual Discrimination |
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VMI |
Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test Of Visual Motor Integration |
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WAIS-III |
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised |
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WISC-IV |
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised |
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WPPSI-III |
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-Revised |
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WRAT-4 |
Wide Range Achievement Test-4 |
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