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We are pleased to announce the successful completion of two of our long-term projects this summer. The first project aimed to create accessible digital teaching aids for deaf and hard-of-hearing children in Uganda, while the second project provided training and coaching on diagnostic testing for secondary-level students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing in Tanzania.

Last year Kenyan organization eKitabu asked Kentalis International Foundation to develop a game-based assessment tool for Kenyan teachers to conduct sign language progress monitoring. After months of collecting, testing, and training this tool will be finalized at the end of July 2023. 

At the end of April 2023, our Aruban partner came to the Netherlands for a study visit within the framework of our early intervention project in Aruba. This project is focused on professionals working with children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing as well as children with a presumable developmental language disorder.  

The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 2023 conference in Washington, D.C. surprised with a number of presentations that were related to Deaf education. It is good to see that inclusion plays an increasing role in international education programming.

We are pleased to report that we concluded the first phase of the knowledge exchange project in Aruba with cluster-2 school Scucha Nos and the Aruban foundation for hearing impaired FEPOH. In this project, we work on improving early intervention and itinerant service provision for deaf and hard-of-hearing children and children with a presumable developmental language disorder. 

Capacity-building training of professionals in the field of deaf education has been the core of the work of Kentalis International Foundation for many years now. All of our projects are geared towards achieving quality inclusive education for deaf and hard-of-hearing learners in the Global South. To increase the impact of what we do, we have sharpened our approach. Below are the three major

Self-paced e-learning has become more and more a standard component for training programs of Kentalis International Foundation. For that reason, we have decided to make the development of our e-learning platform a top priority for 2022 and 2023. We aim to create a high-quality, easy-to-use, online learning environment for professionals in the Global South working in deaf and hard-of-hearing

This summer Kentalis International Foundation started a new project collaboration on Aruba, aimed at early intervention and ambulatory care for deaf and hard-of-hearing children and children with a presumable developmental language disorder. In this project, we work together with cluster-2 school Scucha Nos and the Aruban foundation for hearing impaired FEPOH. 

Welcome to the updated Kentalis.com. After months of working behind the scenes, the new website was launched at the end of June 2022. All content has been updated to match the vision and direction of Kentalis International Foundation, the international project office of Royal Kentalis.

The USAID Let’s Read project aims to improve reading outcomes for children in Zambia’s government and community schools. Kentalis International Foundation developed a pilot within the project to support literacy education for deaf and hard-of-hearing learners.

Kentalis International Foundation works towards an inclusive society. Our projects mostly relate to high-quality deaf education and care. However, for persons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing to fully participate in society it is equally as important to create an inclusive workplace. In collaboration with the state company Staatsolie Suriname, Kentalis designed a custom-tailored trajectory for one

In December 2021 Kentalis International Foundation handed out certificates to two senior and two junior participants of the National Association of the Hard-of-Hearing and Deafened Nepal (Shruti). The participants were part of a tailor-made itinerant service provision training.