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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