Zakiyah A. Alsiddiqi- Ph.D. in Clinical Language Sciences
- Assistant Professor at King Saud University
Zakiyah A. Alsiddiqi
- Ph.D. in Clinical Language Sciences
- Assistant Professor at King Saud University
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Introduction
Assistant professor at KSU, certified pediatric speech-language therapist (CCC-SLP), and a research fellow working with an international team to develop tools to measure language acquisition in Arabic speaking children (Bulbul). My research interests include language disorder, DLD, emergent literacy, the DLD's impact, and enhancing DLD intervention.
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May 2008 - March 2011
Education
September 2018 - September 2022
September 2013 - May 2016
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Publications (5)
Purpose
Although children with developmental language disorder (DLD) are known to have difficulties with emergent literacy skills, few available studies have examined emergent literacy skills in Arabic-speaking children with DLD. Even though Arabic language characteristics, such as diglossia and orthographic structure, influence the acquisition of...
Purpose: This commentary describes a multi-national project which addresses gaps in the design and delivery of health and education services in Arabic-speaking countries in relation to early language development, with a focus on Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. This includes: (1) co-production with early years professionals a...
Research with English-speaking populations has shown that there is a relationship between developmental language disorder (DLD) and emergent literacy skills in children. A small number of Arabic studies have indirectly investigated this relationship in typically developing (TD) children, and children with reading difficulties, and demonstrated the...
Using comprehensive language assessments and emergent literacy assessments, this study provided preliminary findings regarding language-literacy relationships in Saudi Arabic speaking preschool children. This study also compared children's performance accuracy on emergent literacy tests between TD and DLD groups. Consistent with the English literat...
