Special Education: 62 years of dedication in Holguín
- Written by Yanela Ruiz González
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Special Education in Cuba marks its 62nd anniversary this January 4, a work of dedication that in the northeastern province of Holguín is developed in 27 educational institutions and different modalities, such as outpatient and hospital care.
Yamila Garrido Labrada, head of this Education in the province, said that they currently have more than 3 thousand students grouped in seven specialties related to behavioral disorder and autism spectrum, sensory disabilities (blind and deaf), mental developmental delay and intellectual disability.
Regarding the teaching staff, she added that more than a thousand teachers work in the classrooms, while others are involved in the training of students who due to physical-motor limitations or chronic-degenerative diseases find it difficult to attend these institutions.
Nearly a hundred children benefit from this service, some of them hospitalized with long-term medical treatments.
"We also provide care for children without parental ties who live in the four Homes for Children without Family Protection in the province, where all the resources for their comprehensive care are guaranteed by the competent bodies and the political and social mass organizations, in coordination with the Education sector," she added.
Created by the ideas of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, special education has gone through different transformations in order to improve its services both for the school population and for its family, who are also educated in ways to contribute to the greatest possible comprehensive development of their children in special conditions.
