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36 glossary concepts
AAC
Augmentative and Alternative Communication: An assessment provided to determine and recommend methods, devices, aids, techniques, symbols, and/or strategies to represent and/or augment spoken and/o...
AMA
American Medical Association: The American Medical Association (AMA) is a professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students.
CAQH
Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare: CAQH is an online database that stores your provider information. As a provider, you grant access for insurance companies (BC/TCS/AG/UHC) to see that you ...
CCC
Certificate of Clinical Competence: The Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) is granted by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in both speech-language pathology and audiolog...
CDC
Comprehensive Development Classroom: Students served in these classes still have access to school resources and activities that are appropriate and beneficial for them. Placement in a Comprehensive...
CFY
Clinical Fellowship Year: Participating in a post-graduate clinical fellowship is a fundamental part of becoming a speech-language pathologist, serving as a basic qualification for professional cer...
CHIP
Children’s Health Insurance Program: The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is a federally sponsored program that provides health insurance to uninsured children in all 50 states and the Di...
COTA
Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant: A COTA, or Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant, does all the duties of an OTA, but has taken an extra step to get certified in their field. Specifical...
DOR
Director of Rehab: A Director of Rehabilitation is in charge of the overall supervision of the department activities. He/she ensures the competency of physical therapists attending to patients. The...
DOS
Date of Service: In health care finance, the day when a therapy was initially provided; often of great importance in verifying charges covered with a third-party payer.
E/M
Evaluation and Management: Evaluation and management (E/M) services are cognitive (as opposed to procedural) services in which a physician or other qualified healthcare professional diagnoses and t...
EOMB
Explanation of Medicare Benefits: Each month you fill a prescription, your Medicare Prescription Drug Plan mails you an 'Explanation of Benefits' (EOB). This notice gives you a summary of your pres...
F
Feeding: Feeding is the process involving any aspect of eating or drinking, including gathering and preparing food and liquid for intake, sucking or chewing, and swallowing (Arvedson & Brodsky, 2002).
FAPE
Free Appropriate Public Education: The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is an educational entitlement of all students in the United States who are identified as having a disability, gua...
FCP
Functional Communication Profile: The Functional Communication Profile Revised (FCP-R) allows SLPs and special educators to evaluate and account for some of the unique communication skills in indiv...
HCPCS
Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System: Pronounced HIC PIX. These codes are generally used to describe services or supplies that are not covered in CPT. Few commercial carriers recognize HCPCS c...
HH
Home Health: Home health care is a wide range of health care services that can be provided in your home for an illness or injury.
HI
Hearing Impaired: Hearing loss, also known as hearing impairment, is a partial or total inability to hear. A deaf person has little to no hearing. Hearing loss may occur in one or both ears.
HOH
Hand over hand: Hand over hand prompting is the most invasive of all prompting strategies as it requires a teacher to physically manipulate a child's body. Also known as 'full physical prompting', ...
ID
Intellectual Disability: Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem solving) and in adaptive beh...
L
Language: A type of treatment. Language refers to the words we use and how we use them to share ideas and get what we want.
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