Royal Kentalis aims to help people with communicative and auditory disorders to fulfil their full potential. Well-trained employees and scientific research are vital to succeed in our mission. The Kentalis Academy is the research and knowledge sharing department of Royal Kentalis. It strives to demonstrate the added value of our education and to build the basis for innovation.
At the Kentalis Academy, over 50 scientists conduct research together with health care professionals, educational professionals and patient experts. We collaborate (inter)nationally with other health care, education and knowledge institutions. Our research is focused on improving the quality and effectiveness of our health care and educational services.
Research programs
Kentalis Academy has three research programs:
- Deafness and hard-of-hearing
- Deafblindness and complex communication needs
- Developmental Language Disorder
Next to these research programs, Kentalis International Foundation is part of the Kentalis Academy, although it operates as an independent foundation with its own ANBI status.
Sharing knowledge
We share our knowledge and latest insights with people from our target groups, their environment and with professionals. For example by developing and organizing professional training.
We work together with professionals, universities, other knowledge institutions and social organisations, also internationally.
Professors at Kentalis Academy
With the support of Kentalis, professorial chairs are established at Dutch universities reflecting the specific expertise in language and communication.
Chair Language Development Disorders - Constance Vissers
Constance Vissers has been appointed professor by special appointment of Language Development Disorders at Radboud University’s Faculty of Social Sciences, in Nijmegen.
Professor Vissers’ aim is to gain deeper insight into the neuropsychology of language development disorders, in order to strengthen the expertise available for the increasingly diverse target groups at Kentalis.
Chair Deaf Education - Loes Wauters
Loes Wauters has been appointed professor by special appointment at the Behavioural Science Institute at Radboud University in Nijmegen on 1 April 2023.
In the chair 'Education and teaching of deaf and hard-of-hearing children and adolescents', she focuses on the development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children and adolescents and the factors that influence this development.
Chair Multiple Disabilities and Complex Communication Needs - Saskia Damen
Saskia Damen has been appointed professor by special appointment at the University of Groningen (RUG in Dutch, located in North Netherlands) on 1 September 2022.
In the chair 'Development and learning of persons with multiple disabilities and complex communication needs and of persons with congenital or early acquired deafblindness' she focuses on the development, evaluation and implementation of diagnostic tools and interventions.
Contact
Interested in the scientific research conducted by Kentalis Academy? For questions or inquiries, please send an e-mail to academie@kentalis.nl.