Cuba Prioritizes Special Education

Havana, Jan 5 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban special education system caters to 44,262 children in the country who need specialized teaching, with 527 institutions. Nearly 15,000 professionals presently work to educate special needs children in every municipality in the nation, highlighted Cuban Education Minister Luis Ignacio Gomez on the 45th anniversary of that discipline in the island. Gomez confirmed that the project benefits children affiliated with the National Association of Blind and Visual Handicapped as well as of the National Association of the Deaf, comprising more than 100,000 members. He noted that all the Cuban territories count on orientation and diagnostic centers that monitor assistance to those students from very early ages.

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