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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

Invitation webinar June 4th 2020

20-05-2020

Royal Dutch Kentalis, eKitabu and Deaf Child Worldwide in collaboration invite you to the webinar:
Language before Literacy: The importance of language acquisition and communication - first approaches for Deaf and hard of hearing children, building the evidence base in Africa.

'Together we make the best out of it'

07-04-2020

Corona (Covid-19)

30-03-2020

Tactile Working Memory Scale

20-01-2020

Events

06 Jul

Postponed: 23rd international congress on the education of the deaf (ICED)

ICED is the international forum for sharing evidence-based practice, research and ideas about education of Deaf / hard of hearing students.

19 Sep

HANDS! Festival

On 19 September 2020, Leiden University presents the HANDS!

01 Oct

The African Researchers’ Initiative ARI

Deafblind International announces: "The African Researchers' Initiative in Deafblindness (ARI) is now active and the 1st African DbI Conference on Deafblindness is scheduled to be held in Nairobi,