Dr. Sandy Tahan, DEdPsy. has worked for the past twenty years as an Educational Psychologist in Egypt.  She has completed a bachelor's degree in the field of psychology at the American University in Cairo, a master’s degree as a School Psychologist at the University of British Columbia in Canada, and a doctorate degree in Educational Psychology at the University College London in The United Kingdom. Dr. Tahan has received a great deal of training in the integration of assessment and intervention for school-aged children experiencing learning difficulties. In Canada, she participated in research related to early literacy skills, assisted schools to determine eligibility for special education services, maintained an up-to-date test library of standardized tests, and completed a practicum involving several psycho-educational assessments.  Through her studies in the UK, she researched the relationship between early literacy skills and bilingual children, in addition to, developing assessment measures to assess children learning in both Arabic and English.  Her research highlighted the importance of improving assessment materials in order to identify bilingual children struggling with literacy skills at an early stage.