For families of deaf children, a lifelong learning journey has its many challenges. Parents struggle to communicate with their children amidst feelings of isolation, frustration, and misunderstanding in and outside the home. eKitabu’s GPE KIX research, Scaling Inclusive Early Learning with Deaf Learners, has a deliberately experimental component of family dynamics.
With Royal Dutch Kentalis, which has been doing work in deaf education for 235 years, eKitabu designed and held two weeks of workshops in Nairobi that involved deaf teachers, parents of deaf children, and colleagues from Rwanda and Malawi to open ways into working together.