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Dr. Hadeel Ayyad analysed the development of the speech skills of typically developing Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking preschool children, documenting types of word structures and speech sounds acquired by age 4. Her research project set some of the groundwork for the development of a phonological assessment tool for Kuwaiti Arabic.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Audiology and Speech Sciences (PhD) - graduated in 2011