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Special Education Vocabulary and Acronyms
·CSC - Case Study Committee
- The committee of school professionals and parents who make
special education decisions regarding a particular child -
an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) Committee.
· CI
-Communication
Impaired - speech
· EI
- Emotionally Impaired or Early Intervention. Only the context
gives you a clue
as to which it is.
· HI
- Hearing Impaired
· IEP
- Individualized Education Plan
· LI
- Learning Impaired - Includes Learning Disabilities and Mental
Retardation.
· VI
- Vision Impaired
· EDIS
- Educational Developmental Intervention Services - This military
and civilian agency provides Special Education Medically Related
Services to our students.
· EFMP
- Exceptional Family Member Program. This is the program through
which we try to place families in locations where the students
educational and medical needs can be met.
· ESY
- Extended School Year - The Summer program for those serious
cases where this need has been documented.
· EXCENT
- The Special Education Computer Program
· DODI
1342-12
- The Department of Defense implementation of IDEA
· RUMRS
- Reports of Unavailability of Medically Related Services.
This is a report the school sends in to Washington on unmet
medical needs for Special Education kids.
· SLP
- Speech/Language Pathologist.
Additional
Terms can be found in the DoDDS-Special
Education Parent Guide, Section
Four: Glossary of Terms. |