AAC – Augmentative and Alternative Communication
ABI – Acquired Brain Injury
ACAC – Attendant Consumer Action Coalition
ADP – Assistive Device Program
AGM – Annual General Meeting
AJHS – Ann Johnston Health Station
ALS – Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
AO – Attendant Outreach
AODA – Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
ARCH – A Legal Resource for People with Disabilities (formerly the Advocacy Resource Center for the Handicapped)
ARF – Addiction Resource Foundation
ASAC – Attendant Service Application Centre (formerly PIC – Project Information Centre)
ASL – American Sign Language
CAF – Canadian Abilities Foundation
IL Canada – Independent Living Canada
CAMH – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
CAR – Consumer Attendant Roster
CCAC – Community Care Access Centre
CRA – Canada Revenue Agency (formerly Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, CCRA)
CCD – Council of Canadians with Disabilities (formerly COPOH)
CDAC – Communication Disabilities Access Canada
CHS – Canadian Hearing Society
CILT – Centre for Independent Living In Toronto
CNIB – Canadian National Institute for the Blind
COT – City of Toronto
CP – Cerebral Palsy
CPA – Canadian Paraplegic Association
CPP – Canada Pension Plan
CPP-D – Canadian Pension Plan Disability Benefit Program
CPSO –College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
CRA – Canada Revenue Agency (formerly CCRA)
CTA – Canadian Transportation Agency
CWD-O – Citizens with Disabilities – Ontario
DAWN – DisAbled Women’s Network
DF – Direct Funding
DFP – Direct Funding Program
DPI – Disabled Persons International
EI – Employment Insurance
ERDCO – Ethno-Racial People with Disabilities Coalition Ontario
ESA – Employment Standards Act
EWA – Education Wife Assault
HRSDC –Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
GoC – Government of Canada
GTA – Greater Toronto Area
IL – Independent Living
ILC – Independent Living Centre, same as ILRC
ILRC – Independent Living Resource Centre, same as ILC
ILSP – Independent Living Service Providers
ILST – Independent Living Skills Trainer
LHIN – Local Health Integrated Network
I&R – Information and Referral
ITS – In The Stream
LTD – Long-Term Disability insurance
MD – Muscular Dystrophy
MERCs – Mandatory Employment Related Costs
MOD – March of Dimes
MOHLTC – Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
MS – Multiple Sclerosis
NEADS – National Educational Association of Disabled Students
OA – Osteo Arthritis
OAS – Old Age Security
ODA – Ontarians with Disabilities Act (see above AODA)
ODI – Office of Disability Issues (in Social Development Canada)
ODSP – Ontario Disability Supports Program
OHIP – Ontario Health Insurance Plan
OI – Osteogenesis Imperfecta
OFCP – Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy
OHA – Ontario Hospital Association
OHRC – Ontario Human Rights Commission
OMA – Ontario Medical Association
OMOD – Ontario March of Dimes
ONILC – Ontario Network of Impendent Living Centres
OW – Ontario Works
PDN – Parenting with a Disability Network
PHIPA – Personal Health Information Protection Act
PLCPPD – Provincial Liaison Committee for Persons with Physical Disabilities
PSW – Personal Support Worker
PWD – Person with a disability
SCI – Spinal Cord Injury
SDC – Social Development Canada
SDPP – Social Development Partnership Program (from the Office of Disability Issues)
SDPP-D- Social Development Partnership Program-Disability Component
STDs – Sexually Transmitted Diseases
SHU – Supportive Housing Unit (formerly SSLU)
SM – Self Manager (on the Direct Funding Program in Ontario)
SMR – Self-Manager’s Report
SMRR – Self-Manager’s Report Review
SSLU – Support Service Living Unit
TTY/TDD – Teletypewriter/Telephone Device for the Deaf
UD – Universal Design
UTI – Urinary Tract Infection
UW – United Way of Greater Toronto and York Region
VSA – VSA, the international organization on arts and disability, (formerly Very Special Arts)
VON – Victorian Order of Nurses
U of T – University of Toronto
WSIB – Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
WT – Wheel-Trans
