Cuban President announces the opening of special education centers

Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba, announced today through his Twitter profile that Cuba will soon inaugurate two new pedagogical centers for children with special educational needs.

Soon in Cuba we will open two new schools for children with severe disabilities in the central and eastern parts of the country. The experience of the school “Republic of Panama” is extended on request of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, the Cuban president tweet.

The announcement of the island’s Head of State comes in the context of the presentation to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of a report that shows the country’s commitment to the promotion and protection of the human rights of its people and the construction of a society that achieves all justice and full dignity, according to the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anayansi Rodriguez.

The special education centres are at an advanced stage of construction in the provinces of Villa Clara and Santiago de Cuba, which will have classrooms for teaching, workshops for labour preparation, speech therapy, psychopedagogy, psychology and rehabilitation.

The purposes of the institutions include physical-motor and psychological rehabilitation in relation to the diagnosis of each student and the objectives of the corresponding educational level to ensure continuity of studies.

Schools will have the necessary technical support to offer physical rehabilitation services or other specialized treatment that contribute to self-validation or other compensatory mechanisms.

Solidarity with Panama School was inaugurated in Havana in 1989 by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, in order to attend to children with physical and motor limitations and in April 2018, during a visit made there by Army General Raúl Castro, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, he described it as one of the most beautiful, prettiest and fairest works of the Revolution.

(Taken from ACN in Spanish)

Written by Radio Grito de Baire