List of Acronyms

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
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