To address the challenge of quantifiable assessment of life skills programmes, the team looked at global standardised scales around the world which either measured only specific life skills or were not contextual to disadvantaged communities and explored the idea of developing an assessment scale of its own, and with the help of two UK-based clinical psychologists, Fiona Kennedy and David Pearson, built the Life Skills Assessment Scale (LSAS) to measure life skills in disadvantaged children in the developing world. After eight years of effort, the scale was published in the international journal named Social Behavior and Personality in 2014.

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