Janus – EDI use around the world

The EDI has been completed in several other countries, not just Canada. There is an Australian version that’s being done in over 60 communities in Australia. And I’m happy to say that we found that the results are almost identical in terms of our means, and even patterns in terms of differences between boys and girls, aboriginal and non-aboriginal populations. We also have a few small scale implementations in emerging economies: in Jamaica and Kosovo. And we find that– children are children everywhere. And I don’t think we have to find that. That’s true. Children develop in the same way regardless of which country they grow up in, regardless of the language they speak.  So, as long as an instrument is linked to the child development, it can be used anywhere. And it can be used anywhere to look at the specific realities of the community the child grows up in.