| Acronym |
Definition |
| AAPS |
Arizona Articulation Proficiency
Scale |
| ABR |
Auditory Brainstem
Response |
| AHCPR |
Agency for Health Care Policy
and Research |
| ASHA |
American Speech and Hearing
Association |
| ASQ |
Ages and Stages
Questionnaire |
| BAER |
Brainstem Auditory Evoked
Response |
| BDIST |
Battele Developmental Inventory
Screen |
| CA |
Chronological age |
| CDIs |
MacArthur Communicative
Developmental Inventories |
| CLAMS |
Clinical Linguistic Auditory
Milestone Scale |
| COR |
Conditioned Orienting Response
Audiometry |
| CPA |
Conditioned Play
Audiometry |
| DOH |
Department of Health |
| DQ |
Developmental
quotient |
| EIP |
Early Intervention
Program |
| ELM |
Early Language Milestone
Scale |
| EMT |
Enhanced milieu
therapy |
| EOAE |
Evoked otoacoustic
emissions |
| EOWVT |
Expressive One Word Picture
Vocabulary Test |
| IDEA |
Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act |
| IOM |
US Institute of
Medicine |
| ISFP |
Individualized Family Service
Plan |
| JCIH |
Joint Committee on Infant
Health |
| LBW |
Low birth weight |
| LDS |
Language Development
Survey |
| MCDI |
Minnesota Child Development
Inventory |
| MLU |
Mean length of
utterance |
| MSEL |
Infant Mullen Scales of Early
Learning |
| NICU |
Neonatal Intensive
Care |
| NIH |
National Institute of
Health |
| NYDOH |
New York Department of
Health |
| OME |
Otitis media with
effusion |
| PAT |
Photo articulation
test |
| PCHL |
Permanent Congenital Hearing
Loss |
| PDD |
Pervasive Developmental
Disorder |
| PDI |
Preschool Development
Inventory |
| PEDS |
Parents' Evaluations of
Developmental Status |
| PLC |
Preschool Language
Checklist |
| PPVT |
Peabody Picture Vocabulary
Test |
| PPVT-R |
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-
Revised |
| RDLS |
Reynell Developmental Language
Scales |
| REEL |
Receptive Expressive Emergence
of Language |
| SD |
Standard deviation |
| SELD |
Specific expressive language
delay |
| SES |
Socioeconomic status |
| SICD |
Sequenced Inventory of
Communication Development |
| SICD |
Sequenced Inventory of
Communication Development - Revised |
| SLI |
Specific Language
Impairment |
| SLP |
Speech Language
Pathologist |
| TELD |
Test of Early Language
Development |
| VABS |
Vineland Adaptive Behavior
Scales |
| VRA |
Visual Reinforcement
Audiometry |