List of Abbreviations

AAI – Atlanto-Axial Instability

ADL – Activities of Daily Living

AED – Anti-Epileptic Drug

ARC – Antenatal Results and Choices

ASD – Atrial Septal Defect

ASD – Autism Spectrum Disorder

AVSD – Atrio-Ventricular Septal Defect

BGH – Barnet General Hospital

BP – Blood Pressure

CAF – Common Assessment Framework

CAMH – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service

CAMHS – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service

CBT – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

CDC – Child Development Clinic

CDT – Child Development Team

CHD – Congenital Heart Disease

CIT – Combined Integrated Therapies

CTG – Cardiotocography 

CVS – Chorionic Villus Sampling

CXR – Chest X-Ray

CYP – Children and Young People

CYPOT - Children and Young People’s Occupational Therapist 

DCT – Disabled Children’s Team

DES – Directed Enhanced Review

DLA – Disability Living Allowance

DS – Down Syndrome

DSA – Down’s Syndrome Association

DSMIG – Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group

ECG – Electrocardiogram

Echo – Echocardiogram

EEG – Electroencephalogram

EGH – Edgware General Hospital

EHCP – Education, Health and Care Plan

ENT – Ear, Nose and Throat

EP – Educational Psychologist

EPR – Electronic Patient Record (computer system)

EY SEN advisor – Early Years Special Educational Needs Advisor

FBC – Full Blood Count

FMU – Fetal Medicine Unit

FSH – Follicular Stimulating Hormone

GORD – Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease

GOSH – Great Ormond Street Hospital

HbA1c – glycated Haemoglobin

HI – Hearing Impaired

Hib – Haemophilus Vaccine

HLA – Human Leukocyte Antigen

HPV – Human Papillomavirus

HQ – Head Quarters

HV – Health Visitor

HWT – Handwriting Without Tears

IAG - Information, Advice and Guidance 

IAPT – Improving Access to Psychological Therapies

IFT – Infant Feeding Team

IgA – total Immunoglobulin A

LD – Learning Disability

LEG – Leading Edge Group

LDR – Learning Disability Register

MASH – Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub

MAT – Multi-Agency Team

MCA – Mental Capacity Act

MDT – Multi-Disciplinary Team

Men C- Meningococcal C

ML-DS – Myeloid Leukaemia in Down Syndrome

NGT – Naso-Gastric Tube

NHS –National Hearing Screening 

NICE – National Institute for Clinical Excellence

NIPE – Neonatal Infant Physical Exam

NIPT – Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing

NNU – Neonatal Unit

NSPCC – National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

OME – Otitis Media with Effusion

ORE – Oromotor Exercise

OSA – Obstructive Sleep Apnoea

OT – Occupational Therapist/Therapy

PCHR – Personal Child Health Record

PCV – Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine

PDA – Patent Ductus Arteriosus

PE – Physical Exercise

PIP – Personal Independence Payment

PPI - Proton Pump Inhibitor

PPV23 – Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine

PSG - Polysomnography

PSHE – Personal, Social, Health and Economic education

EY SEND – Pre-School Teaching Team

PVD – Pulmonary Vascular Disease

PWP - Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

QRS – QRS complex or interval on an ECG

RFH – Royal Free Hospital

RNOH – Royal National Orthopedic Hospital

SAL – Speech and Language

SALT – Speech and Language Therapy/therapist/Team

SCAN – Service for Children and Adolescents with Neuro-developmental difficulties

SCBU – Special Care Baby Unit

SCR – Summary Care Record

SDB – Sleep Disordered Breathing

SEN – Special Educational Needs

SENCO - Special Educational Needs Coordinator

SEND– Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

SENDIASS – Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice and Support Services

SENIF – Special Educational Needs Inclusion Funding

SLT – Speech and Language Therapist

SOGS – Schedule of Growing Skills

SPA – Single Point of Access

SRE – Sex and Relationship Education

SW – Social Worker

T4 – Thyroxine (thyroid hormone)

TAM – Transient Abnormal Myelopoiesis

TASC – Team for Assessing Social Communication

TFT – Thyroid Function Test

The BIG-DS – Barnet Integrated Groups for preschoolers with Down Syndrome

ToD – Teachers of the Deaf/Teachers of the hearing impaired

TPO – Thyroid Peroxidase auto-antibodies

TSH – Thyroid Stimulating Hormone

TTG – Tissue Transglutaminase antibody

TVI – Teachers of students with Visual Impairments

UCLH – University College London Hospital

USS – Ultrasound

VFF/VFSS – Videofluoroscopy

VI – Visually Impaired

VSD – Ventricular Septal Defect

VZV – Varicella Zoster Virus