Dyslexia Assessment for Languages of India (DALI)
DALI is an assessment tool created by National Brain Research Centre, India in South Asian languages.
Most tools for screening dyslexic children are available in English. As we have already seen, that can be quite problematic and culturally inappropriate.
DALI is an assessment tool created by National Brain Research Centre, India in South Asian languages.
It contains tools for school teachers and assessment tools for psychologists in Indian Languages to identify dyslexia. For the first time, India will have indigenously developed screening and assessment tools that have been standardized and validated across a large population of nearly 4840 children.
The tools are available in Hindi, Marathi, Kannada and English and development in other languages is in process. DALI contains two screening tools for dyslexia (for school teachers), namely the JST (Junior Screening Tool) for classes (1-2) and the MST (Middle Screening Tool) for classes (3-5) in four languages, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada and English. It also contains eight standardized and validated assessment Batteries to be used by psychologists. It is further being made available in 4 more South Asian languages.