AAC - Augmentative and Alternative Communication
ABC - Antecedent, Behaviour and Consequence
ACE - Assessment of Comprehension and Expression
ADD - Attention Deficit Disorder
ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
AET - Autism Education Trust
ASC - Autism Spectrum Condition
AWPU - Age Weighted Pupil Unit
BESD - Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties
BEWOs - Behaviour and Emotional Well-being Officers
BPVS - British Picture Vocabulary Scale
BSL - British Sign Language
B/VI - Blind or Vision Impairment
C and L - Cognition and Learning
CAMHS - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
CCC - Cumbria County Council
CCG - Clinical Commissioning Group
CDC - Child Development Centre
CLA - Child Looked After
CoEL - Characteristics of Effective Learning
CoP - Code of Practice
CP - Child Protection
CPD - Continuous Professional Development
CPFT - Cumbria Partnership Foundation Trust
CPS - County Psychological Service
CYP - Children and Young People
D/HI - Deafness and Hearing Impairment
DfE - Department for Education
DAF - Disability Access Funding
DLA - Disability Living Allowance
DLD - Developmental Language Disorder
ESFA - Education and Skills Funding Agency
EHA - Early Help Assessment
EHCP - Education Health and Care Plan
ELSA - Emotionally Literate Support Assistants
EMH - Emotional Mental Health
ENT - Ear Nose and Throat
EP - Educational Psychologist
ERT - Edinburgh Reading Test
EYFS - Early Years Foundation Stage
FE - Further Education
FSM - Free School Meals
HHTS - Hospital and Home Tuition Service
HLTA - Higher Level Teaching Assistant
IBP - Individual Behaviour Plan
IEP - Individual Education Plan
ILR - Individual Learning Record
LA - Local Authority
LSA - Learning Support Assistant
MAAT - Multi Agency Assessment Team
MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
NDCS - National Deaf Children’s Society
NHS - National Health Service
NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
NSPCC - National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
OT - Occupational Therapy
P.E.E.P. - Personal Evacuation and Egress Plan
PD - Physical Disability
PECS - Picture Exchange Communication System
PEP - Personal Education Plans
PHAC - Paediatric Hearing Aid Clinic
PIVATS - Performance Indicators for Valued Assessment and Target Setting
PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties
PRU - Pupil Referral Unit
PSD - Personal Social Development
PSP - Pupil Support Plan
PUD - Personal Understanding of Deafness
PVI - Private, Voluntary and Independent
QFT - Quality First Teaching
SATs - Specialist Advisory Teachers
SDQ - Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
SEAL - Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning
SEMH - Social Emotional and Mental Health
SEN - Special Educational Needs
SENCO - Special Educational Needs Coordinator
SEND - Special Educational Needs and Disability
SEND IAS - Special Educational Needs and Disability Information Advice Support Service
SEND TST - Special Educational Needs and Disability Teaching Support Team
SFA - Skills Funding Agency
SLCN - Speech, Language, Communication Needs
SLD - Severe Learning Difficulties
SLT - Speech and Language Therapist
SOGS - Schedule of Growing Skills
SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulties
SRP - Strategically Resourced Provision
STAP - South Tyneside Assessment of Phonology
STASS - South Tyneside Assessment of Syntactic Structures
TA - Teaching Assistant
TaMHS - Targeted Mental Health in Schools
ToD - Teacher of the Deaf
TVI - Teacher of Children and Young People with Vision Impairment