a basic ST acronym list

AAC = Augmentative and Alternative Communication
ABA = Applied Behavior Analysis
ADD = Attention Deficit Disorder
ADHD = Attention Deficit Hyper Disorder
AIT = Auditory Integrated Training
AOS = Apraxia of Speech
APD = Auditory Processing Disorder
ASD = Autism Spectrum Disorder
ASQ = Ages and Stages Questionnaire
ASL = American Sign Language

BCH = Benign Congenital Hypotonia

(C)APD or CAP or APD = Central Auditory Processing Disorder
CELF = Clinical Evaluation of Language Functions (Preschool-3 to 6 years-
language test)
CELF 3 = Clinical Evaluation of Language Functions (3 to 21 years - language
test)
CHERAB = Communication Help, Education, Research, Apraxia Base
CPSE = Committee on Preschool Special Education
CTONI = Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence
CV = Consonant Vowel

DAS = Developmental Apraxia of Speech
DDR = Developmental Delay Resources
DHA = Docosahexaenoic acid
DOE = U.S. Department of Education
DSI = Dysfunction of Sensory Integration (another acronym for SID)
DVD = Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia

EEG = Electroencephalogram
EHCA = Education for All Handicapped Children Act
EI = Early Intervention
EMG = Electromyography
EOWPVD = Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (2-12 years
language test)

FMRI = Functional magnetic resonance imaging

GER = Gastro-esophageal reflux
GFDA = The Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation
GI = Gastro-intestinal

IDEA = Individuals With Disabilities Education Act
IEP = Individualized Education Plan
IFSP = Individualized Family Service Plan
IQ = Intelligence Quotient

KSPT = The Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children (24 to 71 months)

LD = Learning Disabled
LDA = Learning Disabilities Association of America
LLD = Language-based Learning Disability
LiPS = Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program
LRE = Least Restrictive Environment

M.D. = Medical Doctor
MIND = Music-Intelligence-Neural-Development
MIT = Melodic Intonation Therapy
MR = Mentally Retarded
MRI = Magnetic Resonance Imaging

NDT = Neurodevelopmental Treatment
NICHY = National Information Center for Children and Youth With Disabilities
NIH = National Institutes of Health
NIDCD = National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

OT = Occupational Therapy or Occupational Therapist

PAT = The Photo Articulation Test
PDD = Pervasive Developmental Disorder (milder end of the Autism Spectrum)
PDD-NOS = Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
PECS = Picture Exchange Communication System
PEDS = Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status
PLS 3 = Preschool Language Scale
POWPVT = Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test (2-18 years, language
test)
PROMPT = Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets
PT = Physical Therapy or Physical Therapist

SD = School District
SEPTA = Special Education Parent Teacher Association
SERT= Special Education Resource Teacher
SETRC = Special Education Training and Resource Center
SI = Speech Impaired or Sensory Integration
SII = Sensory Integration International (The Ayres Clinic)
SID = Sensory Integration Dysfunction (now referred to as DSI)
SLI = speech language impairment
SLP = Speech Language Pathologist
SMO = Supramalleolar orthotics
ST = Speech Therapy

TBI = Traumatic Brain Injury
TELD-3 = Test of Early Language Development (2 -7 years language test)
TX = Treatment

VMPAC = Verbal Motor Production Assessment for Children (3 -12 years)