Sensitivity and unconditional love for teaching are combined in the Antonio Suarez Dominguez special school in Camaguey, to contribute to the social inclusion of children with sensory impairments.
For more than 34 years, teacher Idelmis Lio Bisbe, who works in a classroom for children with low vision and profound hearing impairment, has dedicated herself to this admirable work.
The task is complex, she says, because it requires attending to the individual needs of each child, according to his or her diagnosis. For example, those with visual impairment require attention with telescopes or lecterns, and in the case of those with hearing impairment, we focus on air management or lip-facial reading.
Although this educator has had the opportunity to work at other educational levels, she says she feels a very strong connection with this teaching because it is the one that requires the most dedication, whether during classes, reviewing homework or following up on diagnoses.
With 32 years of experience, Libia Menendez Navarro teaches the subject of Visual Stimulation to blind and low vision students. From the earliest ages, she says, they are placed in the center based on the evaluation of the specialists in Ophthalmology, to teach them to use the visual rest they have.
To achieve this objective, she points out, the little ones begin to be attended in the early stimulation room and by means of optical and non-optical aids they learn to see with their glasses, and at the same time macrotypes are used for reading enlargement and color contrast is used to promote better vision.
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