| AAE | African-American English |
| ASHA | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association |
| ANSD | Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder |
| APD | Auditory Processing Disorder |
| ASL | American Sign Language |
| ASD | American School for the Deaf |
| Auslan | Australian Sign Language |
| BASL | Black American Sign Language |
| BDA | British Deaf Association |
| BIPOC | Black, Indigenous, and People of Color |
| BSL | British Sign Language |
| BTE | Behind the ear receiver |
| CDS | Centre for Deaf Studies (University of Bristol) |
| CHL | Conductive Hearing Loss |
| CIC | Completely in the canal receiver |
| cm | Centimeter |
| CODA | Child of a Deaf Adult |
| COED | Commission on the Education of the Deaf |
| CRISPR | Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats |
| CSD | California School for the Deaf |
| CSL | Chinese Sign Language |
| CT | Computerized Tomography |
| DAM | Deaf Art Movement |
| DASL | A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles |
| DCAL | Deafness Cognition and Language Research Center (University College London) |
| De’VIA | Deaf View/Image Art |
| dB | Decibels |
| dBA | A-weighted decibels |
| DIF | Differential Item Functioning |
| DPN | Deaf President Now |
| EAC | External Auditory Canal |
| EDHI | Early Hearing Detection and Intervention |
| EU | European Union |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| FDP | Federation of Deaf People |
| GU | Gallaudet University |
| Historically Black Colleges and Universities | |
| HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
| HL | Hearing Loss |
| Hz | Hertz |
| ICED | International Congress on the Education of the Deaf |
| ICSD | International Committee of Sports for the Deaf |
| INES | Instituto Nacional Educação de Surdos (National Institute of Education for the Deaf) |
| IRB | Institutional Review Board |
| ITC | In the Canal Receiver |
| ITE | In the Ear Receiver |
| LDVP | London Deaf Video Project |
| Libras | Lingua Brasileira de Sinais (Brazilian Sign Language) |
| LGBTQ | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer |
| LGBTQIA | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual |
| LSF | Langue des Signes Française (French Sign Language) |
| mm | Millimeter |
| MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| NAD | National Association of the Deaf |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| NBDA | National Black Deaf Advocates |
| NCHAM | National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management |
| NMM | Nonmanual Markers |
| NTD | National Theatre of the Deaf |
| NTID | National Technical Institute for the Deaf |
| NUD | National Union of the Deaf |
| NYTF | National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene |
| OSHA | Occupational Safety and Health Organization |
| OFSL | Old French Sign Language |
| PHU | Partially hearing units |
| RIT | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| RITE | Receiver in the ear |
| ROI | Return on investment |
| SNHL | Sensorineural Hearing Loss |
| SOC | Superior Olivary Complex |
| STD | Speech Detection Threshold |
| TC | Total Communication |
| TM | Tympanic Membrane |
| UN | United Nations |
| United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund / United Nations Children’s Fund | |
| VL2 | Visual Language and Visual Learning |
| VV | Visual Vernacular |
| WFD | World Federation of the Deaf |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| WPSD | Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf |
| WRT | Word Recognition Testing |
| YES | Youth Empowerment Summit |
In: Culture, Deafness & Music
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