Arabic Learning Disabilities Development Project

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A team of researchers and practitioners from Centre for Child Evaluation & Teaching (Kuwait City, Kuwait), Massachusetts General Hospital’s Institute of Health Professions (Boston, MA, USA) and Canterbury University in New Zealand (Christ Church, NZ) proposed a five-year (March 2012-March 2017) Test Development Initiative for Arabic-speaking children and adults. This large-scale collaborative project, will target development of culturally and linguistically appropriate diagnostic tools to enable early identification of children at risk for reading and related language disabilities as well as developing age-appropriate tools for primary and middle school-age children. It will also enable the development of tools for adults and college students in Arabic.