Abbreviations
A list of abbreviations used in documents, guidelines and presentations:
| AB | Arthur Boothroyd word lists |
| ABR | Auditory Brainstem Response |
| AOAE | Automated OtoAcoustic Emissions |
| AAI | Aided Audibility Index |
| AAA | American Academy of Audiology |
| ALD | Assistive Listening Device |
| BAA | British Academy of Audiology |
| BAAP | British Association of Audiological Physicians |
| BACDA | British Association of Community Doctors in Audiology |
| BAEA | British Association of Educational Audiologists |
| BATOD | British Association of Teachers of the Deaf |
| BKB | Bamford-Kowal-Bench sentence tests |
| BSA | British Society of Audiology |
| BSL | British Sign Language |
| BTE | Behind The Ear |
| BW | Body Worn |
| CCT | Consonant Cluster Test |
| CI | Cochlear Implant |
| CIC | Completely In the Canal |
| CHEAR | Children’s Hearing Evaluation and Amplification Resource |
| CHSWG | Children’s Hearing Services Working Group |
| CMP | Common Monitoring Protocol |
| dB | Decibel |
| DfES | Department for Education and Skills |
| DH | Department of Health |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processing |
| DSL | Desired Sensation Level (i/o = input/output) |
| ESP | Early Support Project |
| FAAF | Four Alternative Auditory Feature test |
| FM | Frequency Modulated |
| FRC | Frequency Response Curve |
| GoF | Goodness of Fit |
| HAR | Hearing Aid Review |
| HL | Hearing Level |
| IT | Information Technology |
| ITE | In The Ear |
| LEA | Local Education Authority |
| LIFE-IHP | Listening Inventory For Education – Individual Hearing Profile |
| LSQ | Listening Situations Questionnaire |
| LTASS | Long Term Average Speech Spectrum |
| Ling | Ling 6 sounds test |
| MCHAS | Modernisation of Children’s Hearing Aid Services |
| MRC | Medical Research Council |
| NAL | National Acoustics Laboratory (NL = Nonlinear, RP = Revised, profound) |
| NDCS | National Deaf Children’s Society |
| NHS | National Health Service |
| NHSP | Newborn Hearing Screening Programme |
| OME | Otitis Media with Effusion |
| Parrot/Phoenix | Recorded/automated version of the McCormick Toy Test |
| PCHL | Permanent Childhood Hearing Loss |
| PEACH | Parent Evaluation of the Aural/oral performance of Children |
| REAG | Real Ear Aided Gain |
| REAR | Real Ear Aided Response |
| RECD | Real Ear to Coupler Difference |
| REIG | Real Ear Insertion Gain |
| REMs | Real Ear Measures |
| RESR | Real Ear Saturation Response |
| REUR | Real Ear Unaided Response |
| RNID | Royal National Institute for the Deaf |
| SHARP | Situational Hearing Aid Response Profile |
| SII | Speech Intelligibility Index |
| SNHL | Sensori Neural Hearing Loss |
| SPL | Sound Pressure Level |
| ToD | Teacher of the Deaf |
| THD | Total Harmonic Distortion |
| VRA | Visual Reinforcement Audiometry |
| WDRC | Wide Dynamic Range Compression |