Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy List of Common Gifted Acronyms

What does this acronym mean? Here are a few more gifted, 2e, and educational acronyms and phrases which are not on the roundup of Hoagies' list of acronyms and abbreviations at the time of this post:

ABA - Applied Behavior Analysis (see BCBA)

ABIQ - Abbreviated Battery IQ, based on routing subtests.

ADOS - Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule

ADS - Asynchronous Development Syndrome
(Read it here)

ASD - Autism Spectrum Disorder

BACB - Behavior Analyst Certification Board (see BCBA)

BCBA - Board Certified Behavior Analyst (see BACB)

CBT - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

CFT, CFIT - Culture Fair Test, Culture Fair Intelligence Test (Wikipedia page)

CHIPs - Children of High Intellectual Potential
(Read it here)

CPS - Collaborative Problem Solving®
(Read it here)

crystallized intelligence - acquired knowledge and experience, as seen in vocabulary, general information, analogies

DI - Destination ImagiNation

DITD - Davidson Institute for Talent Development

dox, doxing, doxxing - searching for and publishing private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the Internet, typically with malicious intent. Note that Board Rules disallow this on the Gifted Issues Discussion Forum: "Remember that this is a public forum. This is not a diary or a private journal. Try not to post any information that will allow others to identify you, your children, or anyone else."

DSM, DSM-5 - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). 5th Edition, 2013.

DYS - Davidson Young Scholar

EBRW - Evidence-Based Reading and Writing

EF - Executive Function

EFD - Executive Function Disorder

ELA - English Language Arts

ERB - Educational Records Bureau
Admission/Achievement assessments, typically used in private schools.

ESOL - English for Speakers of Other Languages

FBA, FBAs - Functional Behavior Assessment(s)

fluid intelligence - innate intelligence, as seen in pattern recognition, abstract reasoning, problem solving, puzzles

FSY - full school year

G, g factor - general intelligence

Gc - crystallized intelligence

Gf - fluid intelligence

HALT - Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired. Possible triggers for negative behavior, meltdowns, or tantrums. SENG article

HYPSM - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT. 5 prestigious US colleges. urban dictionary

MAP - Measures of Academic Progress. An assessment by Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA).

NRT - Norm-Referenced Test

NT - Neurotypical, or neurologically typical

OOD - Out Of District

OST - Out-of-School Time

PYD - Positive Youth Development

SES - Socioeconomic Status. SES may correlate with educational outcomes; An aim of common core is to have equal outcomes.

SIG - 1) Summer Institute for the Gifted (summer camps offered by giftedstudy.org)
. . . .2) Special Interest Group (American Mensa SIGs)

SLP - Speech Language Pathologist

SOAR - is an acronym for helping students to remember study skills:
Set goals,
Organize,
Ask questions,
Record.
Website here: https://studyskills.com/

SPD - Sensory Processing Disorder

SSA - single subject acceleration, usually Math or English Language Arts (ELA)

VC, VCI - Verbal Comprehension, Verbal Comprehension Index (part of IQ test)

WM, WMI - Working Memory, Working memory Index (part of IQ test)

YS, YSP - Young Scholar, Young Scholars' Program (see: Davidson Young Scholar)

ZPD - zone of proximal development. Explained on wikpedia here. ERIC report here.

CoolMomTech article: "99 texting acronyms and phrases that every parent should know", July 14, 2014