What all the acronyms mean!
By no means an exclusive list, and the acronyms seem to change constantly!
SENCO – Special Educational Needs Coordinator
ADD – Attention Deficit Disorder
ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ASD – Autistic Spectrum Disorder (including Aspergers Syndrome) is now becoming ASC - Autistic Spectrum Condition
BESD – Behavioural, Emotional or Social Disorders
CAF – Common Assessment Framework
CAMHS – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
CAT – County Autism Team
CIC – Child in Care (were known as LAC - Looked After Children)
CIDS – Communication and Interaction Difficulties Service
DAMP – Disorder of Attention, Motor skills and Perception
DAY – Devon Action for Youth
EAL – English as an Additional Language
EOTAS – Education Other Than At School Service
EP – Educational Psychologist
EWO – Education Welfare Officer
HI – Hearing Impairment
JACAT – Joint Agency Child Abuse Team
JAT – Joint Agency Team
MC – Minor Concern
MDD – Major Depressive Disorder
MLC – Mill Leat Centre (Okehampton College – working preventatively with behavioural needs students, also runs PSP (see below)
MLD – Moderate Learning Difficulty
MTA – Meal Time Assistant
PD – Physical Difficulty
PEA – Personal Education Allowance (Child in Care)
PEP – Personal Education Programme – for CIC students
PMHW – Primary Mental Health Worker (works for CAMHS)
PRU – Pupil Referral Unit
PSP - Pastoral Support Programmes – for students at risk of exclusion
SLCN – Speech, Language and Communication Need
SLD – Severe Learning Difficulty
SpLD – Specific Learning Difficulty (i.e. Dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia)
SRS – Supported Return to School
TA – Teaching Assistant
VI – Visual Impairment
YISP – Youth Inclusion Support Panel.
YOT – Youth Offending Team
YSMART – Drugs and Alcohol counselling service
By no means an exclusive list, and the acronyms seem to change constantly!
SENCO – Special Educational Needs Coordinator
ADD – Attention Deficit Disorder
ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ASD – Autistic Spectrum Disorder (including Aspergers Syndrome) is now becoming ASC - Autistic Spectrum Condition
BESD – Behavioural, Emotional or Social Disorders
CAF – Common Assessment Framework
CAMHS – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
CAT – County Autism Team
CIC – Child in Care (were known as LAC - Looked After Children)
CIDS – Communication and Interaction Difficulties Service
DAMP – Disorder of Attention, Motor skills and Perception
DAY – Devon Action for Youth
EAL – English as an Additional Language
EOTAS – Education Other Than At School Service
EP – Educational Psychologist
EWO – Education Welfare Officer
HI – Hearing Impairment
JACAT – Joint Agency Child Abuse Team
JAT – Joint Agency Team
MC – Minor Concern
MDD – Major Depressive Disorder
MLC – Mill Leat Centre (Okehampton College – working preventatively with behavioural needs students, also runs PSP (see below)
MLD – Moderate Learning Difficulty
MTA – Meal Time Assistant
PD – Physical Difficulty
PEA – Personal Education Allowance (Child in Care)
PEP – Personal Education Programme – for CIC students
PMHW – Primary Mental Health Worker (works for CAMHS)
PRU – Pupil Referral Unit
PSP - Pastoral Support Programmes – for students at risk of exclusion
SLCN – Speech, Language and Communication Need
SLD – Severe Learning Difficulty
SpLD – Specific Learning Difficulty (i.e. Dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia)
SRS – Supported Return to School
TA – Teaching Assistant
VI – Visual Impairment
YISP – Youth Inclusion Support Panel.
YOT – Youth Offending Team
YSMART – Drugs and Alcohol counselling service