EC Acronyms and Disability Categories

Areas of Disability:

 

Autism Spectrum Disorder (AU) - a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, which adversely affects a child's educational performance. Other characteristics often associated with autism are engagement in repetitive activities and stereotypical movements, restricted interests, resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences. 

 

Deaf-Blindness (DB) - hearing and visual impairments that occur together, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs.

 

Developmental Delay (DD) - a child aged three through seven, whose development and/or behavior is delayed or atypical, as measured by appropriate diagnostic instruments and procedures, in one or more of the following areas: physical development, cognitive development, communication development, social or emotional development, or adaptive development, and who, by reason of the delay, needs special education. 

 

Deafness (DF) -  a hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification that adversely affects the child's educational performance. 

 

Emotional Disability (ED) - a condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects a child's educational performance: (a) an inability to make educational progress that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors; (b) and inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers; (c) inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances; (d) a general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression; (e) a tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.

Hearing Impairment (HI) - impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating that adversely affects a child's educational performance.

Intellectual Disability - Mild, Moderate, or Severe (ID) - significantly below average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.

Multiple Disabilities (MU) - two or more disabilities occurring together, the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments.

Orthopedic Impairment (OI) - a severe physical impairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance. 

Other Health Impairment (OHI) - having limited strength, vitality or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment and adversely affects a child's educational performance.

Speech or Language Impairment (SI) - a communication disorder, such as an impairment in fluency, articulation, language, or voice/resonance that adversely affects a child's educational performance. 

Specific Learning Disability (SLD) - a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the impaired ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) - an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force or by an internal occurrence resulting in total or partial functional disability and/or psychosocial impairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance. 

Visual Impairment, including Blindness (VI) - an impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child's educational performance. 

 

 

Other Acronyms for EC Listed Alphabetically:

 

ADD                 Attention Deficit Disorder

 

ADHD               Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

 

AIG                   Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted

 

APD                 Auditory Processing Disorder

 

AYP                 Adequate Yearly Progress

 

BA                    Behavioral Assessment

 

BASC               Behavior Assessment System for Children

 

BIP                   Behavior Intervention Plan

 

CAPD               Central Auditory Processing Disorder

 

CC                    Cross-categorical

 

CEC                 Council for Exceptional Children

 

DPI                   Department of Public Instruction

 

ELL                  English Language Learner

 

EOC/EOG         End of Course/Grade

 

ESY                 Extended School Year

 

FAPE               Free Appropriate Public Education

 

FBA                  Functional Behavior Assessment

 

HFAU               High Functioning Autism

 

IDEA                 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

 

IEP                   Individual Education Program

 

IQ                     Intelligence Quotient

 

ITP                   Individualized Transition Plan

 

LEA                  Local Education Agency

 

LEP                  Limited English Proficiency

 

LRE                  Least Restrictive Environment

 

NCDPI              North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

 

NCLB                No Child Left Behind

 

OCR                 Office of Civil Rights

 

OCS                 Occupational Course of Study

 

OSEP               Office of Special Education Programs

 

OT                    Occupational Therapy

 

PLP                  Present Levels of Educational Performance

 

RTI                   Response to Intervention

 

SCOS               Standard Course of Study

 

SLP                  Speech Language Pathologist