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Cuba: Int'l Workshop on Teaching the Deaf-Blind
Beginning Monday, Cuba is hosting about 170 experts from 10 countries interested in sharing experiences in teaching the deaf-blind.
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Prensa Latina
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Beginning Monday, Cuba is hosting about 170 experts from 10 countries interested in sharing experiences in teaching the deaf-blind.
"Defending Hope" a first international workshop on this subject, runs until Wednesday at the Havana International Conference Center with experts from Angola, Argentina, Colombia, El Salvador, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.
"We want to provide a space for sharing and raise awareness about services for that type of disability," said Kenia Noguera, a technical/teaching adviser to the Latin American Reference Center for Special Education.
Some of the issues are the multi-sectoral and community concept of comprehensive care for the deaf-blind, and the leading role of the family in educating children. The experts also will debate training and education for teachers of the deaf-blind and other issues.
For Cuba, which has more than 600 teachers for 130 deaf-blind children and adolescents nationwide, the high cost of that special education is no object in efforts to integrate those students into society, Orozco said.
"Defending Hope" a first international workshop on this subject, runs until Wednesday at the Havana International Conference Center with experts from Angola, Argentina, Colombia, El Salvador, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.
"We want to provide a space for sharing and raise awareness about services for that type of disability," said Kenia Noguera, a technical/teaching adviser to the Latin American Reference Center for Special Education.
Some of the issues are the multi-sectoral and community concept of comprehensive care for the deaf-blind, and the leading role of the family in educating children. The experts also will debate training and education for teachers of the deaf-blind and other issues.
For Cuba, which has more than 600 teachers for 130 deaf-blind children and adolescents nationwide, the high cost of that special education is no object in efforts to integrate those students into society, Orozco said.