Review of Disability and Rehabilitation Research: NIDRR Grantmaking Processes and Products (2012)
Chapter: Appendix C: Acronyms
| AAS | Advocacy Activities Scale |
| AATPP | Asset Accumulation and Tax Policy Project |
| ACS | American Community Survey |
| ADA | Americans with Disabilities Act |
| ADEA | Age Discrimination in Employment Act |
| AHPPPAL | Assessment of Health Plans and Providers by People with Activity Limitations |
| AHRQ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
| APAER | Annual Portfolio Assessment Expert Review |
| APR | Annual Performance Report |
| ARCS | Access Risk Classification System |
| ARRT | Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training |
| AT | assistive technology |
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| BMS | Burn Model System |
| BMS/DCC | Burn Model System/Data Coordinating Center |
| BRFSS | Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System |
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| CAHPS® | Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems |
| CART | communication access realtime translation services |
| CBO | Congressional Budget Office |
| CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CDMRP | Office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (DOD) |
| CDS | Charge Data System |
| CFDA | Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance |
| CFR | Code of Federal Regulations |
| CHART | Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Techniques |
| CIHR | Canadian Institutes of Health Research |
| CMS | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
| CP | cerebral palsy |
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| DBTAC | Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center |
| DGI | Dynamic Gait Index |
| DGI-M | Dynamic Gait Index-Modified |
| DOD | U.S. Department of Defense |
| DOL | U.S. Department of Labor |
| DRRP | Disability and Rehabilitation Research Project-General |
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| ED | U.S. Department of Education |
| EDGAR | Education Department General Administrative Regulations |
| EEG | electroencephalogram |
| EEOC | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| EMG | electromyogram |
| ESES | Exercise Self-Efficacy Scale |
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| FEPA | Fair Employment Protection Agency |
| FEW | Functioning Everyday with a Wheelchair |
| FID | Field Initiated Project-Development |
| FIP | Field Initiated Project |
| FIR | Field Initiated Project-Research |
| fMRI | functional magnetic resonance imaging |
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| GAO | U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| GPRA | Government Performance and Results Act |
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| HCBS | home- and community-based services |
| HCBU | historically black colleges and universities |
| HEDIS® | Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set |
| HFES | Human Factors and Ergonomics Society |
| HHS | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability |
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| ICC | intraclass correlation coefficient |
| ICDR | Interagency Committee on Disability Research |
| ICF | International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (World Health Organization) |
| ICT | information and communication technologies |
| IMPACT | Individualized Management of Personal Assistant/Consumer Teams |
| IOM | Institute of Medicine |
| IRB | Institutional Review Board |
| ISO | International Standards Organization |
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| JAN | Job Accommodation Network |
| JDF | Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (formerly known as the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation) |
| JTHFT | Jebsen-Taylor Hand Function Test |
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| KIR | Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation |
| KMRREC | Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Center |
| KT | Knowledge Translation |
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| LHPDC | Law, Health Policy, and Disability Center (University of Iowa) |
| LRP | Long-Range Plan |
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| MHQ | Michigan Hand Questionnaire |
| MOMSCIS | Missouri Model Spinal Cord Injury System |
| MS | Model System |
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| NARIC | National Rehabilitation Information Center |
| NCMRR | National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research |
| NFP | notice of final priority |
| NHIS | National Health Interview Survey |
| NIA | notices inviting applications |
| NIDRR | National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| NIMH | National Institute of Mental Health |
| NIOSH | National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health |
| NNJSCIS | Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System |
| NORA | National Occupational Research Agenda |
| NPP | notice of proposed priority |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NTBRMS | North Texas Burn Rehabilitation Model System |
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| OMB | U.S. Office of Management and Budget |
| OPP | Office of Policy and Planning (NIDRR) |
| OSERS | Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (ED) |
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| PART | Program Assessment Rating Tool |
| PARTS/M | Participation Survey for Persons with Mobility Limitations |
| PAS | personal assistance services |
| PCS-BI | Perceived Control Scale for Brain Injury |
| PEAT | Photosensitive Epilepsy Analysis Tool |
| PI | principal investigator |
| PRS | Peer Review System |
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| QA | quality assurance |
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| RAAS | Remote Accessibility Assessment System |
| REI Tour | Real Economic Impact Tour |
| RERC | Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center |
| RRTC | Rehabilitation Research and Training Center |
| RSD | Research Sciences Division (NIDRR) |
| RTI | Research Triangle International |
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| SBIR | Small Business Innovation Research |
| SCI | spinal cord injury |
| SCIMS | Spinal Cord Injury Model System |
| SOAR | Survivors Offering Assistance in Recovery Program |
| STI | scheduled telephone intervention |
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| TBI | traumatic brain injury |
| TBIMS | Traumatic Brain Injury Model System |
| TOFHLA | Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults |
| TRIM | U.S. Department of Education’s web-based grant records management system |
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| UCSF | University of California, San Francisco |
| ULTrA | Upper-Limb Training and Assessment Program |
| UTI | urinary tract infection |
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| VA | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs |
| VIP | VIrtual Planning Test |
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| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAI | Web Accessibility Initiative |
| WCAG | Web Content Accessibility Guidelins |
