AB Assembly Bill (California State Assembly)

ABIC Adaptive Behavior Inventory for Children

ABS Adaptive Behavior Scales

ADD Attention Deficit Disorder

ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder

AIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

App. Appendix

CAC Community Advisory Committee/Council on Special Education

C.C.R. California Code of Regulations

CASE Community Alliance for Special Education

CCS California Children Services

CDE California Department of Education

Cal. Ed. Code California Education Code

C.F.R. Code of Federal Regulations

CAHSEE California High School Exit Exam

Cir. Circuit (9th Cir. = Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal)

CMH Community Mental Health

DHS Department of Health Services

DIS Designated Instruction and Services

DMH Department of Mental Health

DR Department of Rehabilitation

DSS Department of Social Services

e.g. exempli gratia, for example

EHLR Education for the Handicapped Law Reporter

EMR Educable Mentally Retarded

EPSDT Early and Periodic Screening...

et seq. et sequens, and the following

etc. et cetera, and others, and so forth

ETC Educational Transition Center

F. Federal Reporter (F.2d = Federal Reporter Second ...)

FAPE Free Appropriate Public Education

FEP Fluent in English Proficiency

id. idem, the same

IDEA Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

IDELR Individuals with Disabilities Education Law Report

i.e. id est, that is

IEP Individualized Education Program (School District)

IFSP Individual Family Service Plan

IPP Individual Program Plan (Regional Center)

IQ Intelligence Quotient

LCSW Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LEA Local Education Agency

Leiter – R Leiter International Performance Scale – Revised

LEP Limited English Proficient

LRE Least Restrictive Environment

MFCC Marriage, Family, and Child Counselor

OAH Office of Administrative Hearings

OCR Office for Civil Rights – Federal

OSEP Office of Special Education Programs – Federal

OSERS Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services – Federal

OT/PT Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy

PAI Protection & Advocacy, Inc.

PEERS Providing Education for Everyone in Regular Schools

PIAT Peabody Individual Achievement Test

PL Public Law (Federal)

PPVT – R Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test – Revised

RSP Resource Specialist Program

SB Senate Bill (California State Senate)

S-B IV Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test: Fourth Edition

SDC State Developmental Center

SELPA Special Education Local Plan Area

SIB – R Scales of Independent Behavior – Revised

TACS Technical Assistance and Clarification Statement

TPP Transition Partnership Project

U.S.C. United States Code

v., vs. versus, against

VABS Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales

WISC – III Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children – III

WJPEB – R Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery – Revised

WPPSI – R Wechsler Pre-School and Primary Scale of Intelligence – Revised

WRAT 3 Wide Range Achievement Test – Revision 3