Saudi Arabia

Learning Disabilities: A Reality in the Kingdom – An overview of how students with LDs are supported in Saudi Arabia. “In Saudi Arabia, we don’t have any valid standardized tool in Arabic that we can use to identify individuals with learning disabilities. However, based on the international prevalence rate, we expect to have a minimum of 215,000 students in our school systems struggling with LD,” says Dr. Saja Jamjoom, Program Manager for the Learning Disabilities Program at the Prince Salman Center for Disability Research based in Riyadh.”

• http://www.arabnews.com/node/349021

Representation of Learning Disabilities in Saudi Arabian Elementary Schools: A Grounded Theory Study by Ibrahim A. Al-hano. – This dissertation has a nice history of LD support in Saudi Arabia. I admit I read only a part of it as it’s over 200 pages…

• https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjc86vXp9fKAhVI4mMKHfVrDoQQFgglMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdr-banderalotaibi.com%2Fnew%2Fadmin%2Fuploads%2F1%2F1.pdf&usg=AFQjCNHLrvZcDDIQqf8-TSdUvkK51o_bGA&sig2=-mYma_hJ6EEPmIa8w9JyHQ

Special Education in Saudi Arabia: Challenges, Perspectives, Future Possibilities by Turki Alquraini. – This has an overview of the Saudi Arabia and the history on special education (and it’s only 11 pages).

• https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj36o2V3NfKAhVDz2MKHS4OCCUQFghGMAY&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffiles.eric.ed.gov%2Ffulltext%2FEJ937182.pdf&usg=AFQjCNEpLGZWPawbq0rlyDUbfJ01vf02Og&sig2=fY40vg7K0ZVlz3QOSlSM6A

Japan

A report by JASSO (Japan Student Services Organization, an independent administrative institution under the Ministry of Education in Japan. I apologize for posting something in Japanese (my L1), but I found a page where you can read about how each case was supported at various universities in Japan. Very comprehensive and informative.

• http://www.jasso.go.jp/gakusei/tokubetsu_shien/chosa_kenkyu/jirei/index.html