help...abbreviations are getting lost on me!

[soozeedol]

I'm new on MN and I'm really struggling with all the abbreviations on this board
I'm in Scotland so it may also mean that things are referred to differently....I'm reading post's but not always getting the grasp as I don't know what things stand for......help?
Please?

DS - Darling Son
DD - Darling Daughter (etc)

dx - diagnosis

ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder

SENCO - Special Education Needs Co-ordinator

IEP - Individual Education Plan (ie current targets and strategies)

LEA - Local education authority

What else?

I wish there was a 'like' button indigo

PDA pervasive Developmental disorder
SENDIST - SEN tribunal court
NT NeuroTypical
AS Asperger's Syndrome

More anyone?

SN special needs

SEN special ed needs

SW social worker

EP educational psychologist

SALT speech and language therapist

OT occupational therapist

PDA pathological demand avoidance syndrome (in some cases)

SPD sensory processing disorder

EWO education welfare officer

NT neurotypical

PDA is a new one to me....looking this up now as I was talking ODD with psych...ODD being oppositional defiance disorder...she told me they don't see this as a condition....maybe I just used the wrong words for it???...or maybe she was being her usual helpful self...not!

SPD...yes but just didn't have the name for it!
don't have/never heard of EWO...never had one of these...same as ed psych maybe?
don't have a SENCO but that would be support teacher at school I think so maybe we do!
not used the term NT before...
PDD...never heard of that either so will go looking for this, etc

Thank you everyone....brilliant
made a wee list now so I can remember them all!....

anymore?

whats the IPSEA one...I've seen that a few times?

IPSEA. :)

oh my flippin heck.....if not for MN I would never know about this IPSEA....why is it that we are so left in the dark about where to go for advice, info and help...I've always struggled to be given any real information from any specialists involved....they aren't quick to tell you about anything
It always seems you have to be able to ask the right questions and pin people down or something....or maybe I just haven't been looking in the right places...anyway this could prove to be a great help

Excellent...so glad I am here and found you all xx

This forum has been a lifesaver for me, and is the reason why my DS is now on his ABA programme, and the means by which I found out how to arrange it all.

ABA = Applied Behaviour Analysis

soozedol if you are in scotland, you will probably want to look at these sites rather than IPSEA which I think covers England and Wales

enquire.org.uk/

www.edlaw.org.uk/

dude...I need to look this up too...
I seem to have been missing out on gaining loads of info and advice...this is all so enlightening!!
I thought I had so much understanding and knowledge but now feel I know little...I sort of feel guilty I could have been doing more for my DS
Though I don't know how exactly

MN SN Section is the the disabled child's secret weapon.....

thank you willow, I've been on the enquire site before...I need to do a lot of research and investigate more...

I'm just so pleased you are all here...wish I'd found you sooner!
I haven't really had anybody to talk to about things before...I've always been trying to impart to others rather than asking for much help, other than from school or specialists involved
It seems their willingness to give out any more info than they have to is always an issue
I think I'm feeling a lot more empowered by all this already!

One massive thing I have learned over the past year or so, is that when you have a child with ASD (and probably also the case with other SN), no-one officially offers you anything, not even information (in fact it feels often like people are trying to hide things from you, or could not care, like the "developmental paediatrician" we saw who had never heard of ABA). You have to go out there and grab everything through your own efforts. If you think that those in authority/the professionals in the field etc are going to give you what you need, then your child is going to be left wanting. Mumsnet SN forum is absolutely the best thing that we have...

Yes I have found this site to be quite unique - even autism sites which you might expect to help are not as good. I'm not quite sure why other than there being a lack of the direct and practical advice you can get here and a tendency to just waffle on about 'autism' but without any real purpose in sight. I agree that professionals either just don't know very much about autism (because they don't need to for the purposes of their employment), or they tend to not get involved because they are wary of causing expectations in the mind of the parent.

I have been on MN for years, from my recurrent miscarriages, TTC, step-children, nerve-wracking pregnancy, childbirth, problems with breast feeding, post-natal depression....you name it, MN helped me. But never more than now, since it has become evident that DS has ASD. MN-SN is a lifeline (and welcome soozeedol)

thank you so much guys...
Being here and feeling that I have a 'real' outlet and great source of support and that I can be that for others, if I have anything of value to give, is a lovely feeling
It makes such a difference