📋 The BALLS Assessment
The BALLS Assessment — Battery of Arabic Language and Literacy Skills
The Battery of Arabic Language and Literacy Skills — a computerized, norm-referenced assessment evaluating language, metalinguistic, cognitive, and emergent literacy skills in Arabic-speaking children.
📊 By the Numbers
Built on Solid Scientific Evidence
⚙️ Key Features of BALLS Platform
Built for Clinical & Educational Use
For clinical practitioners and educational professionals working with Arabic-speaking children.
Normed Assessment
Assessment milestones based on data from 1,000+ Arabic-speaking children — norm-referenced and age-calibrated.
Automated Scoring
All responses scored automatically with breakdowns at domain, sub-domain, and task level — eliminating manual calculations.
Flexible Administration
Completed in 45–90 minutes. Professionals may administer selected components with scores generated accordingly.
Instant Report
Color-coded reports across domains, subdomains, and tasks — a clear visual of each child's percentile scores.
Intervention
Assessments profile children and inform individualized, targeted intervention plans.
Secure & Compliant
Meets GDPR and Israeli privacy standards with encrypted data storage and secure access control.
💬 Practitioner Feedback
What Professionals Are Saying
“BALLS cut my report time from 3 hours to 40 minutes. It's completely transformed my practice and given me more time with students.”
“The digital assessment is easy to administer to children and the children liked it and were engaged in the process.”
“BALLS helped me draw individual profiles of children and this enabled me to provide more targeted and focused intervention.”
“For the first time, I feel I'm using an assessment that truly reflects the linguistic reality of Arabic-speaking children.”
“BALLS is a comprehensive assessment that provides me with a broad view of the child's abilities.”
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What Does BALLS Assess?
BALLS evaluates foundational Arabic language, metalinguistic awareness, emergent literacy and cognitive skills.
Language Skills
Receptive and expressive vocabulary, sentence and story comprehension, syntactic and narrative skills.
Metalinguistic Awareness
Phonological awareness (syllable, body-coda, phonemic) and morphological awareness (root relatedness, analogies).
Literacy
Letter knowledge (name and sound), decoding simple words, and writing simple words.
Cognitive Skills
Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN), semantic and phonemic fluency, and working memory.
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