Education in UAE With a rapid increase in the population, UAE has felt the need to make considerable investment in educating the people. Presently, UAE is offering a comprehensive education, which is equivalent to the world standards, to all male and female students. Government of UAE is providing free education to all the citizens at all levels. Education needs in the UAE are addressed by an extensive private sector, with many students of both sexes pursuing their higher education both within and abroad (UAE Interact). With the necessary infrastructure in place for providing quality education, the focus of education in the UAE at present is to devise and implement a strategy, which provide the youth of the country the chance to meet the challenges of the business and industrial environment equivalent to global standards. Education of children with special needs is also within the focus of the government policies. “Handicapped centres supervised by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs cater to those with hearing and physical disabilities, the visually impaired and others with special needs. The Ministry is constantly improving its facilities, at the same time emphasising the role of the family in caring for the disabled. The Ministry of Education and Youth, together with the Red Crescent Society, also opened a centre for autistic children in Abu Dhabi, the first in a number of such centres planned by the Ministry” (Arabian Campus). Special Needs Education in the UAE People requiring exclusive attention for their education are among the locals living in the UAE, who are of Arabic origin.Precise number of people in each of the usual special needs category is not available. However, ratio of UAE people requiring special education has been estimated to be between 8 and 10 percent of the population, which is equivalent to the ratio at the global level (Bradshaw, Tennant & Lydiatt, 2004). Although the problem of children with learning difficulties does exist in the context of United Arab Emirates (UAE), psychological and social research on the learning difficulties of UAE children is rare. However, there are other studies conducted in various settings around the world, which focused on the efficacy of the special education placement of students with learning disability. Some other studies focused on the effectiveness of teaching by special education teachers and few others on coping with stress among parents of children, who are mentally retarded. “Also, no effort has been devoted to the identification, prevention, and intervention of childhood emotional and behavioral disorders primarily because of the absence of the screening procedures as well as the unavailability of the empirically based assessment instruments in the UAE public school system. Consequently, there is no information available that can provide insight into the broad spectrum of competencies, adaptive functioning and problems of children with LD in the United Arab Emirates or on the causes and correlates (e.g., classroom environment) that may have influenced them” (Khamis, 2009). The Special Needs Education Abu Dhabi, Dubai, UAE Web page recognizes “children and adults with Autism, ADD, Downs Syndrome, and other mental and physical disabilities and handicaps” (Dubai FAQs Information Guide) as persons having learning disabilities. There is no categorization of learning difficulties in the UAE settings. However, UAE Federal Law 29 of 2006 prohibits schools in the UAE from refusing admission to “a chi