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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.

On 22 November 2021, Kentalis International Foundation attended the launch of a set of reading manual books, specifically designed for young deaf and hard-of-hearing children in Uganda. The manuals are the closing piece of a long and fruitful project cooperation between Royal Kentalis and the National Curriculum Development Center of Uganda.

On the 23rd of July 2021, Royal Kentalis organized a webinar to talk in more detail about our free Speakaboo app and to celebrate the launch of the Swahili version for the East African audience. Participants from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia joined us during the live session.

From Monday July 5th 2021 until Thursday July 8th 2021, the 23^rd edition of the International Congress on the Education of the Deaf (ICED) will start. ICED is one of the most leading conferences in terms of education for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Due to the pandemic, the congress will be completely virtual this time.

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.

The new Language Before Literacy website is online!

Children with Complex Communication Needs (CCN) often have severe speech, language and communication impairments, making it difficult for them to learn new communication skills. Sensory stories can help a child with these problems by stimulating communication as well as interaction in a pleasant manner by reading out a story in which all senses are addressed.

Speakaboo is a free speech development tool used for screening in multilingual children by a non-native speaker. It is an interactive app which can be used on Android or iOS tablets.

Royal 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.

Children of the communication plus group in Breda cannot come to the treatment group due to the corona measures. Pedagogical practitioner Matté Schroder explains how he and his colleagues are now helping the children and parents. “We do this, for example, with an online group discussion, videos and exercises for at home and with speech therapy via video calling. It is not the same, but we make the

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.

Working memory, or the ability to keep something in mind for a limited amount of time is a central function in cognition. For persons with congenital deafblindness we need a bodily-tactile perspective on working memory. This manual gives a theoretical overview and presents a scale that can be used by professionals to identify and assess tactile working memory in persons with deafblindness, and