The Center for Child Evaluation & Teaching (CCET) was first established in 1984 in response to the needs of a group of Kuwaiti mothers who realized that their children were having difficulty with school work. As they were unable to find advice locally, they traveled to the U.K. and, subsequently, to the U.S.A. where their children were assessed and intervention programs were recommended. On returning to Kuwait, they decided to set up a center so that children could be assessed and receive remedial teaching without having to leave the country.