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• Caribbean
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• Society
• Politics and Government
• 06 / 02 / 2009

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Cuba is marking International Childrens Day on June 1st with more than 400 special schools across the country that pay attention to thousands of children with physical and intellectual disabilities.

This type of education requires a large number of teachers properly prepared as well as expensive materials such as the equipment and paper for Braille writing, for example.

In addition, for instance, deaf children are benefited with cochlear implants, a modern and expensive technique that has returned the ability to hear to dozens of Cuban children, free of charge.

Another example of efforts underway in Cuba to benefit disabled children is the presence of 164 blind and deaf children and youths in special classrooms, an initiative that began in Cuba in the late 1990s and that is already showing significant results.

(Juventud Rebelde)