Cuba guarantees the education to visual faulty children

Bejucal. One registers of 54 students coming from 15 municipalities welcomes the special school for visual faulty children “The Pioneers”, of the county of Havana.

With this facility the country completed the program of entities specialized in its 14 counties and the special municipality of Island of the Youth that assist on the whole around a thousand of students with the referred limitations.

Aimé Vega Delgado, directress of the facility, said that there prepare amblíops and estrabics students, blind and of low vision, and a blind deaf girl with coclear implants that has an alone teacher for her.

Also those students, pointed, receive treatment to improve or to conserve their vision, by means of attendance to oftalmológyc consultations that are carried out in the own center, assisted by specialized personnel.

“The Pioneers” have 80 workers, of them 45 educational, among those that the invident professor Osvaldo Álvarez Guzmán, several years National Vanguard and creator of materials for the teaching of those students, reason why has been recognized by the Forum of Science and Technique.

Before 1959, Cuba only had a school of that type of special teaching, located in the capital, which had, by the way, a reduced capacity to assist children and young of the whole nation.(Félix Milián)