Help please - so many abbreviations!

[steph007]

Hi all,
I posted earlier about having just started down the route of an autism diagnosis, and I'm desperately trying to read an understand lots of these posts... BUT I'm struggling a bit as there are so many acronyms which I just don't get - can anyone help me out by explaining?!
CAMHS
ADOS
dx
ABA-VB
bibic
PECS
CDC
MDA
and that's just from a couple of threads! My mind is boggling...

Hi -it is all a bit mind boggling, isn't it?

I can help with some of the -don't know them all, I'm afraid!

CAMHS - Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services

DX - Diagnosis

CDC - Child Development Centre

ADOS - Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule

PECS -Picture Exchange Communication System

Hope that helps

bibic is a therpy cantre in Devon that work alot with children, they are a charity and some of the ladies here have been, we have our interview ina few weeks

thanks, at least some will now make sense! so much to take in....
Lisad, did I read somewhere else that you're in Herts? I am too so would appreciate any local information...