BRIDGING COMMUNICATION BARRIERS

Mission and vision

Kentalis International contributes to the mission of Royal Dutch Kentalis by engaging its professionals in international exchange in order to learn, share expertise and contribute to an enabling environment for equitable quality education and care for all. In the Netherlands and abroad.

About us

Hearing and communication is at the heart of our work. Royal Dutch Kentalis is the specialist in the area of assessment, care and education for persons who are deaf, hard-of-hearing or deafblind, and to those who have a Developmental Language Disorder. With or without an intellectual disability or autism.

Coronavirus (Covid-19)

Like all organisations, Coronavirus (Covid-19) is having a significant impact on our work. As an education and care organization, protecting students, clients, residents and staff is our first priority. We therefore closely follow the guidelines of our government.

Staff are working hard to stay in contact with our clients and pupils and are investigating how technology can enable on-going

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History

Royal Dutch Kentalis has a more than 225 year history. On April 14th in 1790, the Walloon Reverend Henri Daniel Guyot took the initiative to start teaching deaf children in Groningen in the North of the Netherlands. He started out with a classroom of 14 students.

Migrant study

Teaching deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) migrant children with little or no language and/or educational experience is a challenging task. At Kentalis, over the last five years a growing number of DHH migrant children with a variety of linguistic, cultural and background experiences have enrolled in our schools for deaf education including children with large gaps in their language and/or learning.

Our professors

With support of Kentalis, five professorial chairs were established at Dutch Universities, reflecting the specific expertise in language and communication.

News

vCIES2021: a virtual roundtable focused on language and community first approaches to Deaf education

03-05-2021

Four organisations that each have projects focused on improving education for Deaf and hard of hearing learners joined forces during this year’s virtual CIES conference by hosting a roundtable conversation sharing successes and lessons from their projects in Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.

Language Before Literacy

23-12-2020

Sensory stories now also available in English and German

14-07-2020

Frisian and Swahili added as languages to the Speakaboo app

02-07-2020

Events

03 Nov

Save the date: online event language barriers for Deaf and Hard-of-hearing newcomers

On 3, 4 and 5 November, a three-day online event will be organized to conclude our Royal Dutch Kentalis project 'Language barriers'. Mark your calendar!