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| Glossary of Deaf Acronyms
AAAD: American Athletic Association of the Deaf (USA) AAD: Australia Association of the Deaf AAD: Alberta Association of the Deaf (Canada) ACSD: Alberta Cultural Society of the Deaf (Canada) ADA: American Disabilities Act ADARA: American Deaf Advocacy and Rehabilitation Association ADSA: Alberta Deaf Sports Association (Canada) ADVBA: American Deaf Volleyball Association AGBAD: Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (USA) ALDA: Association of Late-Deafened Adults (USA) ASDC: American Society of Deaf Children ASL: American Sign Language ASLDA: American Sign Language Teachers Association AUSLAN: AUstralian Sign LANguage BDA: British Deaf Association (UK) BIBI: Bilingualism & Biculturalism BRS: Bell Relay Service BSL: British Sign Language CAD: Canadian Association of the Deaf CAD: Calgary Association of the Deaf (Canada) CC: Closed-Captioned CCSD: Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf CDSA: Canadian Deaf Sports Association CFLS: Centre Francophone du Langage des Sourds (Belgium) CISS: Comite International des Sports Sourds CODA: Children of Deaf Adults COED: Commission on Education for the Deaf (USA) DBA: Deaf Basketball Association (USA) DCSBC: Deaf Children's Society of British Columbia (Canada) DOD: Deaf (child) of Deaf (parents) DWW: Deaf World Web (Internet) EAD: Edmonton Association of the Deaf (Canada) ECD: Episcopal Conference of the Deaf (USA) FEVLADO: Federatie van Vlaamse Dovenvereninginge ECD: Episcopal Conference of the Deaf (USA) FEVLADO: Federatie van Vlaamse Dovenvereninginge
FFSB: Federation Francophone des Sourds de Belgique FOLDA: Friends of Libraries for Deaf Action (USA) FRAT: Fraternal Society of the Deaf (USA) GUAA: Gallaudet University Alumni Association GVAD: Greater Vancouver Association of the Deaf (Canada)
HLAA: Hearing Loss Association of America HoH: Hard-of-Hearing IVT: International Visual Theatre (France) LSQ: Langue des Signes Québecois (Canada) NAD: National Association of the Deaf (USA) NAOBI: National Alliance of Black Interpreters, Inc. (USA) NBDA: National Black Deaf Advocates (USA) NCI: National Captioning Institute for the Deaf (USA)
NTD: National Theatre of the Deaf (USA) NTID: National Technical Institute for the Deaf (USA) OAD: Ontario Association of the Deaf (Canada) OCSD: Ontario Cultural Society of the Deaf (Canada) PSE: Pidgin Sign English (North America) RID: Registry of Interpreter of the Deaf (USA) SEE: Signing Exact English (North America) SHHH: Self-Help for Hard of Hearing SK: Send Kill; also Stop Keying (on TTY) SL: Sign Language SSE: Signed Support English (British) TC: Total Communication TDD: Telephone Device for the Deaf TDI: Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc. (USA) TRS: Telephone Relay Service TT: Text Telephone TTY: Teletypewriter WFD: World Federation of the Deaf WFDYS: World Federation of the Deaf Youth Section WGD: World Games for the Deaf WWGD: World Winter Games for the Deaf | |
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