NIC – National Interpreter Certification: Certified, Advanced and Master levels
CDI – Certified Deaf Interpreter
CI – Certificate of Interpretation
CT – Certificate of Transliteration
OTC – Oral Transliteration Certificate
SC: L – Specialist Certificate: Legal
CLIP-R – Conditional Legal Interpreting Permit-Relay
Other certifications recognized by RID:
MCSC – Master Comprehensive Skills Certificate
CSC – Comprehensive Skills Certificate
OIC – Oral Interpreting Certificate
RSC – Reverse Skills Certificate
NAD – National Association of the Deaf
Level III – Generalist
Level IV – Advanced
Level V – Master
IC – Interpretation Certificate
TC – Transliteration Certificate
ACCI – American Consortium of Certified Interpreters
SC: PA – Specialist Certificate: Performance Arts
CLIP – Conditional Legal Interpreting Permit
EIPA – Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment
ACE - American Council on Edu
AHEAD - Assoc. of Higher Edu and Disabilities
CEU - Cont. Edu Units
CMP - Certification Maintenance Program
EIPA - Edu Interpreter Performance Assessment
ESSP - Edu Support Service Program
LEP - Limited English Proficancy
NTID - National Technical Institute for the Deaf
RSA - Rehabilitation Services Administration
NRPITD- National Registry of Professional Interpreters and Transliterators for the Deaf
NRID- National Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
RID- Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
AVLIC- Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada
CES- Canada Evaluation System
RSA- Rehabilitation Services Administration (previously known as Office of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration.)
ADA- Americans with Disabilities Act
NITC -National Interpreter Training Consortium
SLI- sign language interpreting
ASL- American Sign Language
FSL- French Sign Language
NAD - National Association of the Deaf
PSE-Pidgin Sign English
• ADA stands for "Americans with Disabilities Act." This law has had a profound beneficial impact on the lives of Deaf people.
• AGB stands for Alexander Graham Bell. In general AGB is held in low esteem by many in the Deaf community because of his efforts to suppress the use of sign language in favor of oralism.
• ASDC stands for American Society for Deaf Children. This organization was set up in 1967 and has chapters all over the U.S. Their purpose is to provide support, encouragement, and information to families raising children who are deaf or hard of hearing. (For more information, see: http://www.deafchildren.org)
• ASLTA stands for American Sign Language Teachers Association. It is a national organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching of ASL and Deaf Studies. (For more information, see: http://aslta.org/)
• BiBi stands for "bilingual/bicultural." This is a philosophy of embracing two languages and cultures.
• BSL stands for British Sign Language. This signed language is used in Britain and other areas of the world. One of its differences from ASL is that BSL uses a two-handed manual alphabet.
• Carpal Tunnel (CT): A syndrome that causes numbness and/or pain in the wrists. This is a common problem affecting interpreters for the Deaf and many Deaf people.
• CC stands for "closed captioning" or "close caption
• CODA stands for Child of Deaf Adult. In the Deaf world, a hearing child of Deaf parents is referred to as a Coda. Codas are generally considered to make the best interpreters because of their familiarity with ASL and Deaf Culture.
• DPN stands for Deaf President Now. DPN was both a campus protest and an international Deaf movement. It took place the week of March 6, 1988 at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. Elizabeth Zinser, a hearing woman, had been newly elected president of Gallaudent University. The students and international Deaf Community demanded and received a Deaf president: I. King Jordan.
• ITP stands for Interpreter Training Program
• Jr.NAD stands for Junior National Association of the Deaf. This is the youth division of the National Association of the Deaf
• LRE stands for Least Restrictive Environment. The question is, what education environment is "least restrictive" for a deaf child? A residential school for the deaf, a local school with an interpreter, a day program, an inclusive charter school, or some other education environment.
• LSQ stands for Langue des Signes Québecois is a popular signed language used in Canada. Many people in Canada also use ASL.
• MCE stands for Manually Coded English. There are several signing systems designed to portray English on the hands. These various systems can be lumped under the term MCE.
• NAD stands for National Association of the Deaf the world's oldest deaf advocacy organization. See www.nad.org
• NCI stands for National Captioning Institute. The NCI was established in 1979 as a nonprofit corporation with the mission of ensuring that deaf and hard of hearing people, as well as others who can benefit from the service, have access to television's entertainment and news through the technology of closed captioning.
• NERDA stands for Not Even Related to a Deaf Adult. A comical reference to Hearing people who don't have ties to the Deaf World.
• NMM: Non-manual markers: Non-manual markers are facial expressions and body movements. Non-manual markers are used to inflect signs. That means to change, influence, or emphasize the meaning of a sign or signed phrase. For example, when asking a question that can be answered with a "yes" or "no" you raise your eyebrows a bit and tilt your head forward slightly.
• NFSD National Fraternal Society of the Deaf Offers insurance as well as fraternal and community service activities for Deaf people.
• NTD stands for National Theater of the Deaf. The NTD is a touring theater group composed of deaf and hearing actors who entertain audiences worldwide through music, sign language, and the spoken word.
• NTID stands for National Technical Institute for the Deaf. NTID is located in Rochester New York and is a popular choice for Deaf students.
• RSC stands for Reverse Skills Certificate. This refers to the ability to understand and voice what is being signed.
• SEE stands for Signing Exact English. An invented sign system intended to represent English with the intent to assist deaf children in the acquisition of English.
• SIMCOM stands for Simultaneous Communication. Simcom is when you sign and voice at the same time.
• TC stands for Total Communication, a philosophy of Deaf Education that advocates using signing, voicing, writing, and other methods of communication.
• TTY / TDD stands for "teletype" or Telecommunication Device for the Deaf. These days it means the same thing as a TTY. In the old days, a TTY was a huge clunker that required a wheelbarrow to move around. TTY's shrank in size and people began calling them TDDs or even Text Telephones but the Deaf Community continues to refer to the devices as TTYs. Instant Messaging via the net has reduced the use of TTYs.
• Uppercase Deaf / Lowercase deaf: While the uppercase and lowercase spellings of Deaf and deaf have not yet become standardized in print media, in general the lowercase spelling refers to physical deafness while the uppercase spelling refers to someone who has internalized the language, beliefs, values, traditions, attitudes, manners, and ways of the Deaf community.
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