ADA | Americans with Disabilities Act |
ADD | Attention Deficit Disorder |
ADHD | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
AIS | Academic Intervention Services |
APE | Adaptive Physical Education |
AT | Assistive Technology |
AU | Autism |
BIP | Behavioral Intervention Plan |
BOCES | Board of Cooperative Educational Services |
CAPD | Central Auditory Processing Disorder |
COS | Childhood Outcomes Summary |
COTA | Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant |
CPSE | Committee on Preschool Special Education |
CSE | Committee on Special Education |
CST | Child Study Team |
CT | Consultant Teacher |
DB | Deaf Blindness |
DD | Developmental Delay |
DOH | Department of Health |
DPH | Due Process Hearing |
DSM | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders |
ED | Emotional Disturbance |
EI | Early Intervention |
ESY | Extended School Year |
FAPE | Free Appropriate Public Education |
FBA | Functional Behavioral Assessment |
FERPA | Family Education Rights and Privacy Act |
FTE | Full Time Equivalent |
HI | Hearing Impaired |
HIPPA | Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act |
IAES | Interim Alternative Educational Setting |
IDEA | Individuals with Disabilities Education Act |
IEE | Independent Educational Evaluation |
IEP | Individual Education Plan |
IHO | Impartial Hearing Officer |
IQ | Intelligence Quotient |
LD | Learning Disability |
LEA | Local Educational Agency |
LEP | Limited English Proficiency |
LRE | Least Restrictive Environment |
LTA | Licensed Teaching Assistant |
MD | Multiple Disabilities |
MR | Mental Retardation |
MH | Mental Health |
NCLB | No Child Left Behind |
NYSAA | New York State Alternate Assessment |
ODD | Oppositional Defiant Disorder |
OHI | Other Health Impaired |
OI | Orthopedically Impaired |
OT | Occupational Therapy |
PDD | Pervasive Developmental Disorder |
PINS | Persons in Need of Supervision |
PLEP | Present Levels of Educational Performance |
PT | Physical Therapy |
RCT | Regents Competency Test |
RR | Resource Room |
RTI | Response to Intervention |
Section 504 | Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 |
SED | State Education Department |
SEIT | Special Education Itinerant Teacher |
SI | Speech Impaired |
SLP | Speech Language Pathologist |
SS | Standard Score |
STAC | System for Tracking and Accounting of Children |
Sub CSE | Subcommittee on Special Education |
SWD | Student with a Disability |
TBI | Traumatic Brain Injury |
TEACCH | Treatment and Education of Autistic and Communication Children |
TS | Tourette Syndrome |
TVI | Teacher of the Visually Impaired |
UPK | Universal Pre Kindergarten |
VESID | Office of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities |
VI | Visually Impaired |
VMI | Visual Motor Integration |
