| Question |
Answer |
| AADB |
American Association of Deaf Blind |
| ACCI |
America Consortium of Certified Intepreters |
| ACET |
Associate Continuing Education Tracking |
| ADA |
Americans with Disabilities Act |
| AGBAD |
Alexander Graham Bell Association of the Deaf |
| ALDA |
Association of Late Deafened Adults |
| ASL |
American Sign Language |
| ASLTA |
American Sign Language Teachers Association |
| AVLIC |
Association of the Visual Language Interpreters of Canada |
| CASE |
Conceptually Accurate Signed English |
| CC |
Certification Council |
| CDI |
Certified Deaf Interpreter |
| CDI-P |
Certified Deaf Interpreter - Provisional |
| CEASD |
Conference for Executives and Administrators of Schools for the Deaf |
| CI |
Certificate of Interpreting |
| CMP |
Certification Matainance Program |
| CODA |
Child of a Deaf Adult |
| CPC |
Code of Professional Conduct |
| CSC |
Comprehensive Skills Certificate |
| CT |
Certificate of Transliterating |
| DOE |
Department of Education |
| DPN |
Deaf President Now |
| EdITOR |
Educational Interpreters and Transliterators |
| EIPA |
Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment |
| EPC |
Ethical Practices Committee |
| EPS |
Ethical Practices System |
| ESSE |
Education Sign Skill Evaluation (givien by the SEE2 people) |
| FAPE |
FAPE |
| FCC |
Federal Communications Commission |
| HLSS |
Hearing Loss Association of America aka SHHH |
| HVO |
High Visual Orientation |
| IC |
Interpreting Certificate |
| IDEA |
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act |
| IEP |
Individual Education Plan |
| IFSP |
Individual Family Service Plan |
| ITP |
Interpreter Training Program |
| LOVE |
Linguistics of Visual English |
| LRE |
Least Restrictive Environment |
| LSQ |
La Langue de Signes Qubecoise |
| LTA |
Local Test Administrators |
| MCE |
Manually Coded English |
| MCSC |
Masters Comprehensive Skills Certificate |
| NAD |
National Association of the Deaf |
| NERDA |
Not Even Related to a Deaf Adult |
| NIC |
National Interpreter Certification |
| NMM |
Non-Manual Markers |
| NTID |
National Techinal Institute of the Deaf |
| OIC |
Oral Interpreting Certificate |
| OTC |
Oral Transliteration Certificate |
| PDC |
Professional Development Committee |
| PSE |
Pidgin Sign Language |
| QA |
Quality Assurance |
| RID |
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf |
| RSI |
Repeative Strain Injury |
| SC:L |
Special Certification: Legal |
| SEE |
Signing Exact English |
| SHHH |
Self Help for Hard of Hearing aka HLAA |
| SIG |
Special Interest Group |
| SODA |
Sibiling of a Deaf Adult |
| SPP |
Standard Practice Papers |
| SSP |
Sighted Support Personnel |
| SSS |
Sign Supported Speech |
| TC |
Transliteration Certificate |
| TRS |
Telecommunication Relay Service |
| VIEWS |
Newsletter received by RID members |
| VR |
Vocational Rehabilitation (Voc Rehab) |
| VRI |
Video Relay Interpreting |
| VRS |
Video Relay Service |
| WASLI |
World Association of Sign Language Interpreters |
| WFD |
World Federation of the Deaf |
Biology Lab Midterm
