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ABA - Applied Behavioral Analysis (see our section on Autism Services)

Adaptive - self-help skills that a child uses for daily living (eg. feeding, toileting, dressing)

Advocacy - the act of assisting or defending a child's interests and rights

Assessment - the initial and ongoing procedure used to identify:

• a child's unique needs and strengths
• a family's resources, priorities and concerns relative to that child's development
• the nature and extent of services that are required by the child and the child's family to address the needs identified in the evaluation process

Assistive Technology Devices and Services - equipment and services that are used to maintain or improve the abilities of a child to partake in such activities as playing, communicating, eating or moving

At Risk - an expression used for children who may, in the future, have problems with development that may affect their learning

Audiology - detection of hearing impairments and the provision of services for hearing loss and the prevention of hearing loss