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NIC unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| RID | Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf |
| NAD | National association of the Deaf |
| MCE | Manually coded English |
| SEE | Signed exact English |
| AVLIC | Association of visual language interpreters of Canada |
| NIC | National Interpreter Certification |
| CDI | Certified Deaf Interpreter |
| CI | Certificate of Interpreting |
| CT | Certificate of Transliterating |
| OTC | Oral Transliteration Certificate |
| SC:L | Special Certification Legal |
| MCSC | Masters Comprehensive Skills Certificate |
| CSC | Comprehensive Skills Certificate |
| IC | Interpreting Certificate |
| TC | Total Communication |
| QA | Quality Assurance |
| EIPA | Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment |
| EdiTOR | Educational Interpreters and Transliterators |
| DOE | Departments of Education |
| LSQ | Lalangue de signes Qubecoise |
| IDEA | Individuals with Disabilities Education Act |
| ADA | Americans with Disabilities Act |
| ASL | American Sign Language |
| LRE | Least Restrictive Environment |
| IEP | Individual Education Plan |
| BEI | Board for Evaluation Interpreters |
| ITP | Interpreter Training Program |
| IEP | Individualized Education Plan |
| SSS | Sign Supported Speech |
| CASE | Conceptually Accurate Signed English |
| CEU | Continuing Education Unit |
| VRS | Video Relay Service |
| TRS | Telecommunication Relay Service |
| VRI | Video Relay Interpreting |
| FCC | Federal Communications commission |
| LTA | Local Test Administratiors |
| NTID | National Technical Institute of the Deaf |
| PSE | Pidgeon Signed English |
| LOVE | Linguistics Of Visual English |
| CPC | Code of Proffessional Conduct |
| CODA | Children of Deaf Adults |
| HVO | High Visual Orientation |
| HLAA | Hearing Loss Assocciation of America |
| DPN | Deaf President Now |
| SSP | Sighted Support Personnel |
| WASLI | World Association of Sign Language Interpreter |
| WFD | World Federation of the Deaf |
| SPP | Standard Practice Papers |
| NMM | Non Manual Markers |
| Morpheme | The smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of a langauge |
| Phoneme | The smallest unit in the sound system of a language |
| Bound Morpheme | A grammatical unit that never occurs by itself, but is always attached to another morpheme |
| Morphology | The study of patterns of word formation in a particular language, including inflection, derivation and composition |
| Semantics | The meaning, or the interpretation of the meaning, of a word, sign, sentence, etc |
| Pragmatics | The analysis of language in terms of the situational context within which utterances are made, including the knowledge and beliefs of the speaker and the relation between speaker and listener |
| Lexicon | The total inventory of morphemes in a given language |
| Prosody | The stress and intonation patterns of an utterance |
| Pronominalize | To replace a noun or noun phrase with a prnoun |
| Discourse | Communication of thoughts by words; talk; conversation longer than a sentence |