KUWAIT: Professor Clayton Keller, a member of the management board for the US's Council for Exceptional Children , will be delivering a lecture on meeting children's learning and behavioral needs at Kuwait's Center for Child Evaluation and Teaching (CCET) in Surra on Jan 27.

The lecture, entitled 'What Can I Do? Ways of Meeting Learning and Behavioral Needs in the Classroom,' will be open to the public. Although Professor Keller is delivering the lecture in English, simultaneous interactive Arabic translation will also be available.

Professor Keller's work in the field of international special education began after he received the 1997 Fulbright Scholar Award at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. The world-renowned specialist also received a Fulbright Senior Specialist's Award from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey in 2003.

Amongst other events he has helped organize and present was a 2007 conference in Lima, Peru entitled 'The International Special Education Forum, Making the Impossible Possible: A Better Life for Individuals with Different Abilities and their Families,' which he was co-director of.

In 2009, he became Visiting Researcher at Norway's University of Aqder, where his research focused on ways to increase international special education research collaborations. Professor Keller's visit on this occasion is sponsored by the US Embassy in Kuwait.

Kuwait's CCET, established in 1984, is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting individuals with learning difficulties by removing barriers to inclusion and empowering them to achieve their full potential. The center is located on Block No. 4, Street 14 in Surra. For further information on the forthcoming lecture, please call the CCET on 183-2000. - Kuwait Times