Glossary of Deaf Acronyms
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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
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)
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
