| ADA |
Americans with Disabilities Act |
| ADAAG |
ADA Accessibility Guidelines |
| AGB |
Alexander Graham Bell Association |
| ALD |
Assistive Listening Device |
| ALDA |
Association of Late Deafened Adults |
| ALS |
Assistive Listening System |
| ASL |
American Sign Language |
| ATA |
American Tinnitus Association |
| BTE |
Behind the Ear (HA or CI) |
| B-H |
Beyond-Hearing |
| CAN |
Computer Assisted Notetaking |
| CAPD |
Central Auditory Processing Disorder |
| CART |
Computer Assisted Realtime Captioning |
| CC |
Closed Captioning |
| CHHA |
Canadian Hard of Hearing Association |
| CHS |
Canadian Hearing Society |
| CI |
Cochlear Implant |
| CIC |
Completely In Canal (HA) |
| CICI |
Cochlear Implant Club International |
| DAI |
Direct Audio Imput |
| db |
decibel |
| ENT |
Ear Nose Throat doctor |
| FM |
Frequency-Modulated radio waves (Type of ALD) |
| HA |
Hearing aid |
| HAT |
Hearing Assistive Technology |
| HATIS |
Hearing Aid Telephone Interconnect System |
| HOH |
Hard Of Hearing |
| IFHOH |
Intl. Federation of HOH Organizations |
| IR |
InfraRed (Type of ALD) |
| ITE |
In the Ear (HA) |
| ITC |
In The Canal (HA) |
| NAD |
National Association of the Deaf |
| OC |
Open Captioning |
| SHHH |
Self Help for Hard Of Hearing People Inc. |
| SWC |
Say What Club |
| TTY |
Teletype |
| TDD |
Telecommunications Device for the Deaf |
| VCO |
Voice Carry Over |
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