Acronyms
AAC Augmentative and Alternative Communication
ABA Applied Behaviour Analysis
ABC Association for Bright Children
AC Accommodated Only
ACC Augmentative Communication Clinic
ADD Attention Deficit Disorder
ADFO Association des directions et directions adjointes des écoles franco-ontariennes
ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADP Assistive Devices Program (MOHLTC)
AEFO Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens
AEP Alternative Education Program (Funding Term)
ALP Annual Learning Plan
AO Autism Ontario
AODA Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (MCSS)
APD Auditory Processing Disorder
AQ Additional Qualification
ASCD Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
ASD Autism Spectrum Disorder
ASL American Sign Language
ASO Autism Society of Ontario
AT Assistive Technology
BEST Behaviour Education Support Training
BLDS Board Leadership Development Strategy
BRIEF Behaviour Rating Inventory of Executive Function
BRT Behaviour Resource Teacher
BSW Behaviour Support Worker
BUILLD Building Understanding and Independence in Lifeskills for Developmental Delays
CADDAC Centre for ADHD/ADD Advocacy, Canada
CAP Central Auditory Processing
CAPD Central Auditory Processing Disorder
CAS Children’s Aid Society
CAT Canadian Achievement Test
CCAC Community Care Access Centre
CCBD Council for Children with Behavioural Disorders
CCED Comité consultatif pour l’enfance en difficulté (SEAC)
CD Conduct Disorder
CEA Canadian Education Association
CEC Council for Exceptional Children
CELF Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals
CF Cystic Fibrosis
CFSA Child and Family Services Act
CHS Canadian Hearing Society
CLBA Canadian Language Benchmarks Assessment
CLC Canadian Labour Congress
CLO Community Living Ontario
CMEC Council of Ministers of Education Canada
CMHO Children's Mental Health Ontario
CMS Children's Memory Scale
CNIB Canadian National Institute for the Blind
CODE Council for Directors of Education
CODELF Conseil ontarien des directrices et des directeurs de l’éducation de langue française
COQ Certificate of Qualification
COSBO Council of School Business Officials
CP Cerebral Palsy
CPCO Catholic Principals’ Council of Ontario
CPF Canadian Parents for French
CSBA Canadian School Boards' Association
CSC Curriculum Services Canada
CTF Canadian Teachers' Federation
CTOPP Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing
CYW Child and Youth Worker
DD Developmental Disability
DMD Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
DRA Developmental Reading Assessment
DSB District School Board
DSM Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
DSM-IV Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 4th Edition
DSW Developmental Service Worker
DX Diagnosis
EA Educational Assistant
EAA Education Accountability Act (Bill 74)
EAP Employee Assistant Program
ECCODE English Catholic Council of Directors of Education
ECE Early Childhood Education
EDU Ontario Ministry of Education
EIC Education Improvement Commission
ELKP Early Learning Kindergarten Program
ELL English Language Learner (formerly ESL or ESD)
ELP Early Learning Program
ENT Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist
EQAO Education Quality and Accountability Office
EQIA Education Quality Improvement Act (Bill 160)
eSIS Enhanced Student Information System
ESL English as a Second Language
ESP Essential Skills Program
ETFO Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario
EVT Expressive Vocabulary Test
FAS Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
FASD ONE Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Ontario Network of Expertise
FI French Immersion
FOI/POP Freedom of Information/Protection of Privacy
FOS Family of Schools
FSBA Fewer School Boards Act (Bill 104)
FSL French as a Second Language
FTE Full-time Equivalent
GDD Global Developmental Delays
GED General Educational Development
GMAT Graduate Management Admission Test
GOAL Goal Oriented Alternative Learning
GSN Grants for Student Needs
HI Hearing Impaired
HOH Hard of Hearing
IBI Intensive Behaviour Intervention
IBI Intensive Behavioral Intervention
ICT Information and Communication Technology
IEP Individual Education Plan
IPRC Identification, Placement and Review Committee
IPs Individual Plans (for students with anaphylactic allergies)
IQ Intelligence Quotient
ISA Intensive Support Amount (Funding Term)
JK Junior Kindergarten
KTEA Kaufman Test of Education Achievement
LC Learning Centre
LD Learning Disability
LDAO Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario
LDCC Locally Developed Credit Courses
LEAF Legal Education and Action Fund
LLD Language-based Learning Disability
LNS Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat
LRA Labour Relations Act
LTD Long Term Disability
LTO Long Term Occasional
MACSE Minister’s Advisory Council on Special Education
MAPS McGill Action Planning System
MCSS Ministry of Community and Social Services
MCYS Ministry of Children & Youth Services
MD Muscular Dystrophy
MFIPPA Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
MID Mild Intellectual Disability
MISA Managing Information for Student Achievement
MOD Modified
Ministry of Health
MOHLTC Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care
MSRI Mann-Suiter Reading Inventory
MTCU Ministry of Training, Colleges &Universities
MU Multiple Exceptionalities
NEA National Education Association
NEADS National Education Association of Disabled Students
NLD Non-verbal Learning Disability
NOS Not Otherwise Specified
NTIP New Teacher Induction Program
OAAIS Ont. Assoc. of Alternative and Independent Schools
OAC Ontario Academic Course
OACL Ontario Association for Community Living
OACMHC Ontario Association of Children’s Mental Health Centres
OACRS Ont. Assoc. of Children’s Rehabilitation Centres
OADD Ontario Association for Developmental Disabilities
OADE Ontario Association for Developmental Education
OAFCCD Ontario Association for Families of Children with Communication Disorders
OAPCE Ontario Association for Parents in Catholic Education
OASAR Ont. Assoc. for Students at Risk
OASBO Ontario Association of School Business Officials
OASIS Ontario Agencies Supporting Individuals with Special Needs
OBIA Ontario Brain Injury Association
OCAS Ontario College Application Service
OCAS Ontario College Application Service
OCASE Ont. Council of Administrators in Special Education
OCBCC Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care
OCC Ontario Curriculum Centre
OCD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
OCSBO Ontario Catholic School Business Officials
OCSOA Ontario Catholic Supervisory Officers’ Association
OCSTA Ontario Catholic School Trustees' Association
OCT Ontario College of Teachers
ODD Oppositional Defiant Disorder
OECTA Ont. English Speaking Catholic Teachers’ Association
OEN Ontario Education Number
OESC Ontario Educational Services Corporation
OFCP Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy
OFHSA Ontario Federation of Home and School Associations
OFIFC Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres
OFIP Ontario Focused Intervention Partnership
OFL Ontario Federation of Labour
OHRC Ontario Human Rights Commission
OISE Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
OLS Ontario Leadership Strategy
OnSIS The Ontario School Information System
OPC Ontario Principals’ Council
OPSBA Ontario Public School Boards' Association
OPSBA Ontario Public School Boards' Association
OPSEU Ontario Public Service Employees' Union
OPSOA Ontario Public Supervisory Officials’ Association
OPSOA Ontario Public Supervisory Officers' Association
OPSTF Ontario Public School Teachers’ Federation
OSAC Ontario Society for Autistic Citizens
OSAP Ontario Student Assistance Plan (MTCU)
OSCA Ontario School Counsellors’ Association
OSIS Ontario Secondary: Intermediate and Senior Divisions
OSLA Ont. Assn of Speech-language Pathologists and Audiologists
OSR Ontario School Record (EDU)
OSS Ontario Secondary Schools, grade 9 to 12
OSSD Ontario Secondary School Diploma
OSSLT Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test
OSSTF Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation
OST Ontario Student Transcript
OSTA/AECO Ontario Student Trustees' Association
OT Occupational Therapist or Occupational Therapy
OTF Ontario Teachers' Federation
OTIP Ontario Teachers' Insurance Plan
OTPP Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
OUAC Ontario Universities’ Application Centre
OYAP Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program
PAAC Parent Association Advisory Committee
PAAC on SEAC Parent Association Advisory Committee on Special Education Advisory Committees
PD Professional Development
PDD Pervasive Developmental Disorder
PECS Picture Exchange Communication System
PIC Parent Involvement Committee
PIRLS Progress in International Reading Literacy Study
PISA Program for International Assessment
PLA Prior Learning Assessment
PLC Professional Learning Community
PPA Principal/Vice-principal Performance Appraisal
PPE Parents partenaires en éducation
PPM Policy/Program Memoranda
PPVT Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
PQP Principal's Qualification Program
PRS Professional Relations Services
PT Physical Therapist or Physical Therapy
PTR pupil:teacher ratio
PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
QECO Qualifications Evaluation Council of Ontario
REACCH Reaching Exceptionalities Through Academics in a Catholic Community of Hope
ROM Range of Motion
RT Resource Teacher
RTO Retired Teachers of Ontario
SAIP Student Achievement Indicators Program
SALEP Supervised Alternative Learning for Excused Pupils
SBHAO Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Society
SBT School Based Team
SEA Special Equipment Amount
SEAB Special Education Appeal Board
SEAC Special Education Advisory Committee
SEB Supplementary Employment Benefits
SEF School Effectiveness Framework
SEMS Substitute Employee Management System
SEOS Special Education Online System
SEPPA Special Education Per Pupil Amount
SERT Special Education Resource Teacher
SET Special Education Tribunal
SFFM Student-Focused Funding model
SIP Special Incidence Portion
SK Senior Kindergarten
SLP Speech Language Pathologist
SO Supervisory Officer
SOE Superintendent of Education
SRI Standardized Reading Inventory
SRT School Resource Team
SSA Safe Schools Act (Bill 81)
SSP/ASD School Support Program/Autism Spectrum Disorder
STSCO Student Transportation Services of Central Ontario
SWAP School Work Assistive Program
TA Teaching Assistant (sometimes but not always)
TA Teaching Assistant
TAP Teacher Advisor Program
TAPS Test of Auditory Perceptual Skills
TBI Traumatic Brain Injury
TESL Teachers of English as a Second Language
TESS The Easter Seal Society
TIMSS Trends International Mathematics and Science Study
T-LCP Teaching-Learning Critical Pathway
TnT Teachers and Technology
TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language
TOWL Test of Written Language
TPA Teacher Performance Appraisal
TSF Tourette Syndrome Foundation
TVO Television Ontario
TWS Test of Written Spelling
U/C University/College Preparation Course
VI Visually Impaired
VIEWS VIEWS for the Visually Impaired
VMI Visual Motor Integration
VOCA Voice Output Communication Aids
VOICE VOICE for the Hearing Impaired
WHMIS Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System
WIAT Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WISC Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
WISC-III Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children – Third Edition
WISC-R Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children - Revised
WJ-III Woodcock-Johnson III Test of Achievement
WPM Words per Minute
WSIB Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
YCW Youth Care Worker
YO Young Offenders
YOA Young Offenders Act