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Abbreviations Commonly Used in Special Education - This issue of the Pracical Parent is useful to both parents and teachers. Abbreviations Commonly Used in Special Education has many of the most frequently used words in special education and their corresponding abbreviations. It's a good reference to have available to refer to and provide to parents with children in special education.

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Avoidance Behavior Patterns Exhibited By Children with Suspected Learning Problems - Avoidance behaviors are common "tools" utilized by children who are experiencing problems in learning. Children will often exhibit these symptoms at home and at school to avoid loss of parental approval, peer humiliation or fear of failure.

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Abbreviations Commonly Used

in Special Education

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

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