The disability sector uses many acronyms, terms and phrases that you may have never come across before. It can feel very overwhelming as you learn to navigate this space.
This glossary is an active work in progress that Team EmployAbility will constantly add too. We have included medical, disability, employment acronyms, as well as phrases you may hear in the workplace.
Please send in your suggestions to employability@scia.org.au
| ABI | Acquired Brain Injury |
| ABT | Active Based Therapy |
| ADE | Australian Disability Enterprise |
| ASCED | Australian Standard Classification of Education |
| AT | Assistant technology |
| BEC | Building Employer Confidence |
| CAPT | Continuous Accessible Path of Travel |
| CHI | Closed Head Injury |
| COGNITION | The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. |
| COMORBIDITY | The simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or medical conditions in a patient. |
| D&I | Diversity & Inclusion |
| DD | Developmental Delays |
| DEN | Disability Employee Network |
| DES | Centrelink Program: Disability Employment Program |
| DISC | Disability Inclusion Status Check aka Disability Inclusion Action Plan |
| DMS | Disability Management Service |
| DRC | Disability Royal Commission |
| EA | EmployAbility |
| EC | Employment Coach |
| EJP | Employment Journey Plan |
| ERG | Employee Resource Group |
| ESS | Employment Support Service |
| FPDN | First Peoples Disability Network |
| GDD | Global Developmental Delay |
| HYPERSOMNIA | Excessive Sleepiness |
| ID | Intellectual Disability |
| ILO | Independent Living Options |
| JD | Job Description |
| LIVED EXPERIENCE | A person’s own experience of living with a disability or having a close relationship with someone with disability, e.g. a family member or partner. |
| LMS | Learning Management Systems |
| MAIN JOB | The job in which a person usually works the most hours. |
| NDAP | National Disability Advocacy Program |
| NDIS | National Disability Insurance Scheme |
| NEDA | National Ethnic Alliance |
| PD | Position Description |
| PPE | Principal Pedestrian Entrance |
| PTA | Post Traumatic Amnesia: a state of confusion that occurs immediately following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in which the injured person is disoriented and unable to remember events that occur after the injury. The person may be unable to state their name, where they are and/or what the time is. |
| S&C | Strength & Conditioning |
| SCI | Spinal Cord Injury |
| SCIA | Spinal Cord Injuries Australia |
| SDA | Specialist Disability Accommodation |
| SDM | Supported Decision Making |
| SIL | Supported Independent Living |
| TBI | Traumatic Brain Injury |
| TL | Team Leader |
| TSP | Typical Support Package |
| WORK PLACE ACCOMMODATIONS | An adjustment to a work environment eg specialised equipment, extra time to complete tasks etc |
| WWC or WWCC | Working With Children or Working With Children Check |