Acronyms
- ACCES-VR Adult Career and Continuing Education Services – Vocational Rehabilitation
- ADA Americans with Disabilities Act
- ADD Attention Deficit Disorder
- ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- AE Age equivalent
- AIS Academic intervention services
- APE Adaptive physical education
- ASD Autism spectrum disorder
- ASL American Sign Language
- AT Assistive technology
- AU Autism
- BOCES Board of Cooperative Educational Services
- BOE Board of Education
- COTA Certified occupational therapy assistant
- CPSE Committee on Preschool Special Education
- CSE Committee on Special Education
- CST Child Study Team
- DB Deaf and Blind
- DD Developmental disability
- DHH Deaf/hard of hearing
- ED Emotionally disturbed
- ERSS Educationally related support services
- ESY Extended school year
- FAPE Free and Appropriate Public Education
- FBA Functional behavioral assessment
- FERPA Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
- ID Intellectual Disability (Formerly known as mental retardation)
- IDEA Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
- IEE Independent Education Evaluation
- IEP Individualized Education Program
- IH Impartial hearing
- IHO Impartial hearing officer
- IQ Intelligence quotient
- ITP Individual Transition Plan
- LD Learning disabled
- LEA Local education agency, local school district
- LRE Least restrictive environment
- MA Mental age
- MD Multiple disabilities
- MR Mental retardation
- MT Music therapy
- NCLB No Child Left Behind (federal law)
- NVLD Non-verbal learning disability
- O&M Orientation and mobility
- OHI Other health impaired
- OI Orthopedically impaired
- OMRDD Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
- OPWDD (Formerly OMRDD) NYS Office for people with Developmental Disabilities
- OT Occupational therapy
- PBIS Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports
- PDD Pervasive developmental disorder
- PLEP Present Levels of Educational Performance
- PPS Pupil Personnel Services
- PT Physical therapy
- SEA State education agency
- SED State Education Department
- SEIT Special education itinerant teacher services
- SI Speech impaired
- SLP Speech language pathologist
- ST Speech therapy
- TBI Traumatic brain injury
- TDD Tele-typewriting device
- TVI Teacher of the visually impaired
- VI Visually impaired
- VR Vocational rehabilitation