Guantanamo.- The 14 de Junio Special School, located in the Reparto Obrero District, in the Guantánamo Municipality, contributes to the full development of girls and boys with special educational needs.
The center, the only one of its kind in the province, has an enrollment of one hundred and ninety students from various municipalities distributed in 18 groups, who receive teaching and care to recover or improve the abilities that minors need according to their pathology.
Thirty-three students with hearing impairment, of them 23 deaf, one deaf-blind and 9 hard of hearing, receive rehabilitation to develop language through the establishment of Cuban Sign Language and the labiofacial technique.
Antonia Cuello Castillo, a specialist in caring for deaf children and general coordinator of the cycle, said that the institution has a room, which functions as a children’s day care center to accommodate children under one year of age to the five.
The children are inserted into the labor education laboratory, the children’s park, the play areas and physical education, in addition to the garden with medicinal and food plants.
The 14 de Junio Special School, in Guantánamo, groups children from early ages to pioneers who are in sixth grade with low vision, blindness, deafness, hearing loss, as well as strabismus and amblyopia, among other pathologies.
