DHH Speak

Here is a site that is run by the FDA which should answer every question you have about cochlear implants. I recommend this for anyone who is searching for information.
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/cochlear/

This list will help you understand the Acronyms used with hearing loss.
You may wish to print this if you are new to the condition as you will see it often in posts.

Acronym Meanings:

2LVCO Two Line Voice Carry Over
ABI Auditory Brainstem Implant
ABR Auditory Brainstem Response
ADA ADA Accessibility Guidelines
ADA Americans with Disabilities Act
ADDC Assistive Device Demonstration Center
AGB Alexander Graham Bell Association www.agbell.org
AGC Automatic Gain Control
AIT Auditory Integrated Training
ALD Assistive Listening Device (neck loops)
ALDA Association of Late Deafened Adults
ALS Assistive Listening System
AN - Auditory Neuropathy
ASL American Sign Language
ASP Automatic Signal Processing
AT Assistive Technology
ATA AmericanTinnitus Association
AVT Auditory Verbal Therapy
BAER Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response
BAHA Bone Anchored Hearing Aid
BTE Behind The Ear (hearing aid)
BICROS Binaural Contralateral Routing Of Signal BSL British Sign Language C & T Comfort and Threshold Levels for CI Mapping (High and Low) CA Communications Assistant (Relay) CAN Computer Aided Notetaking
CAPD Central Auditory Processing Disorder CART Computer Aided RealTime captioning CASE Conceptually Accurate Signed English CAT Computer Axial Tomography
CC Closed Captioned
CHHA Canadian Hard of Hearing Association CHS Canadian Hearing Society
CI Cochlear Implant G
CIC Completely In the Canal (hearing aid)
CICI Cochlear Implant Club International (now part of HLAA)
CI Hear - The best online Support Group for CI Information
COAT - Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology
CROS Contralateral Routing Of Signal
DAI Direct Audio Input
db decibel
ENT Ear Nose and Throat Doctor
EASe Electronic Auditory Stimulation effect
ENG ElectroNystamoGraphy
FM Frequency Modulation
HA Hearing Aid
HAC Hearing Aid Compatible
HAT Hearing Assistance Technology
HATIS Hearing Aid Telephone Interconnect System
HCO Hearing Carry Over (using relay to supplement speech not hearing)
HI Hearing Impaired
HINT - Hearing in Noise Testing
HOH Hard Of Hearing
IDEA Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (under which US Dept of Education gives funding)
HLAA - Hearing Loss Association of America (formerly SHHH)
IEP Individualized Education Program
IFHOH International Federation of Hard of Hearing Organizations
IL Inductive Loop (aka Audio Loop)
IMHO In My Humble Opinion (internet speak) IR Infrared G
ITC In the Canal (hearing aid)
ITE In The Ear (hearing aid)
IVRS Interactive Voice Response System LC Low Cut (HA adjustment)
LR Lip Reading
LOL Laughing Out Loud (internet speak)
MAP Making A Pathway to hearing. The way a Cochlear Implant's processor's parameters are set to deliver sound. (setting levels)
MCL - Most Comfortable Level
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
NAD National Association of the Deaf
NF2 NeruoFibromatosis type 2
NTID National Technical Institute for the Deaf
OC Open Captioned
PSE Pidgin Signed English
RERC Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
RF Radio Frequency
SD - Speech Discrimination
SEE Signed Exact English
SHHH Self Help for Hard of Hearing People Inc.(now HLAA) www.hearingloss.org
SLP Speech Language Pathologist SLT Speech Language Therapist
SRT Speech Reception Threshold
SSD Social Security Disability
SSI Supplemental Security Income
SSPL Saturation Sound Pressure Level (HA adjustment)
SWC Say What Club www.saywhatclub.com
TA Technical Assistance
TAP Technical Assistance Program
TC Telecoil (switch on hearing aid that allows for looped sound (telephone, looped rooms)
TDD Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (invented name for TTY)
TDI Telecommuinications Devices Inc (create the "blue book for all numbers relating the DHH services, schools and agencies)
TT Text Telephone (little used name for TTY)
TTY Teletypewriter like device that sends characters over the phone TV
Television UCL UnConfortable Level
VCO Voice Carry Over
VR Vocational Rehabilitation

To have your website Bobbied - this is what it means...
Bobby is the original name of a web tool that could assess how accessible another web page was. You can learn about it at: the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) web page,
If your site complies with the Bobby tool (now called "WebXAct"), then you can display a little icon to that effect on your site. Courtesy of Steve Barber HLAA