The Department of Special Education has organized 5 days training session from October 23^rd-27^th , 2015 on the use of the DISCOVER Assessment Model. The training was carried out by the renowned Professor June Maker from the University of Arizona and Dr. Ketty Sarouphim-McGill from the American University of Beirut. The DISCOVER model has been developed by Dr. June Maker and her colleagues at the University of Arizona in 1994 and has been used broadly and extensively by various educational contexts in the USA. Its reliability and validity has been ensured by various research studies conducted in the USA, Canada, Australia, England, France, Lebanon, and Bahrain.