Children with disabilities benefit from differentiated school care in Holguín
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The itinerant teachers program benefits 182 children with different disabilities in the province of Holguín, as part of the actions of the Cuban Revolution to improve the quality of life of this population segment.
Yamila Garrido, methodologist from the Provincial Directorate of Education, said to the Cuban News Agency that this educational activity includes students with severe limitations such as infantile cerebral palsy and other conditions that make their transfer to community schools difficult.
Garrido explained that these programs are adapted to the intellectual capacities of each student benefited, who due to their pathologies have mild, moderate or severe mental retardation, for which one of the main objectives is to prepare them in everyday skills.
She noted that this type of program encourages the social inclusion of children and their preparation for a life as independent as possible, included in the priorities of the special education system in Cuba.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, all people involved in the program comply with the measures directed by the health authorities, including physical distancing and the use of the face masks, which contribute to the care of these students, included in the populations at risk in the face of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, Garrido highlighted.
Special education in Cuba emerged on January 4, 1960, at the initiative of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro and has 28 centers in Holguín specialized in caring for infants with hearing, visual and physical-motor disabilities, whose number exceeds the three thousand in the eastern territory.