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This list will help you understand the Acronyms used with hearing loss. You may wish to print this if you are new to the condition as you will see it often in posts on our listserv.
- 2LVCO Two Line Voice Carry Over
- ABI Auditory Brainstem Implant
- ABR Auditory Brainstem Response
- ADA ADA Accessibility Guidelines
- ADA Americans with Disabilities Act
- ADDC Assistive Device Demonstration Center
- AGB Alexander Graham Bell Association http://www.agbell.org
- AGC Automatic Gain Control
- AIT Auditory Integrated Training
- ALD Assistive Listening Device
- ALDA Association of Late Deafened Adults
- ALS Assistive Listening System
- AN - Auditory Neuropathy
- ASL American Sign Language
- ASP Automatic Signal Processing
- AT Assistive Technology
- ATA AmericanTinnitus Association
- AVT Auditory Verbal Therapy
- BAER Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response
- BAHA Bone Anchored Hearing Aid
- BTE Behind The Ear (hearing aid or cochlear implant)
- BICROS Binaural Contralateral Routing Of Signal
- BSL British Sign Language
- C & T Comfort and Threshold Levels for CI Mapping (High and Low)
- CA Communications Assistant (Relay)
- CAN Computer Aided Notetaking
- CAPD Central Auditory Processing Disorder
- CART Computer Aided RealTime captioning
- CASE Conceptually Accurate Signed English
- CAT Computer Axial Tomography
- CC Closed Captioned
- CHHA Canadian Hard of Hearing Association
- CHS Canadian Hearing Society CI Cochlear Implant
- CIC Completely In the Canal (hearing aid)
- CICI Cochlear Implant Club International
- CIH - CI Hear - The best online Support Group for CI Information
- CROS Contralateral Routing Of Signal
- DAI Direct Audio Input db decibel
- ENT Ear Nose and Throat Doctor
- EASe Electronic Auditory Stimulation effect
- ENG ElectroNystamoGraphy
- FM Frequency Modulation
- HA Hearing Aid
- HAC Hearing Aid Compatible
- HAT Hearing Assistance Technology
- HATIS Hearing Aid Telephone Interconnect System
- HCO Hearing Carry Over (using relay to supplement speech not hearing)
- HI Hearing Impaired
- HINT - Hearing in Noise Testing
- HOH Hard Of Hearing
- IDEA Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
- IEP Individualized Education Program
- IFHOH International Federation of Hard of Hearing Organizations
- IL Inductive Loop (aka Audio Loop)
- IMHO In My Humble Opinion (internet speak)
- IR Infrared G ITC In the Canal (hearing aid)
- ITE In The Ear (hearing aid)
- IVRS Interactive Voice Response System
- LC Low Cut (HA adjustment)
- LR Lip Reading
- LOL Laughing Out Loud (internet speak)
- MAP Making A Pathway to hearing. The way a Cochlear Implant's processor's parameters are set to deliver sound.
- MCL - Most Comfortable Level MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- NAD National Association of the Deaf
- NF2 NeruoFibromatosis type 2
- NTID National Technical Institute for the Deaf
- OC Open Captioned
- PSE Pidgin Signed English
- RERC Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
- RF Radio Frequency
- SD - Speech Discrimination
- SEE Signed Exact English
- SHHH Self Help for Hard of Hearing People Inc. http://www.hearingloss.org
- SLP Speech Language Pathologist
- SLT Speech Language Therapist
- SRT Speech Reception Threshold
- SSD Social Security Disability
- SSI Supplemental Security Income
- TA Technical Assistance
- TAP Technical Assistance Program
- TDD Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (invented name for TTY)
- TT Text Telephone (little used name for TTY)
- TTY Teletypewriter like device that sends characters over the phone
- UCL UnComfortable Level
- VCO Voice Carry Over
- VR Vocational Rehabilitation
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