kentalis academy

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.

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.

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.