Activities aimed at enhancing smell, touch, orientation and mobility, to achieve greater autonomy and rehabilitation, will mark this June 27 in Ciego de Ávila the celebration of the International Day of Deafblind People.
This was reported by Alberto Cervantes Sánchez, president of the organizational commission in this province, who added that the fundamental objective of this celebration is to disseminate the basic needs of the deafblind, as well as their right to improve their quality of life and develop all their potential. like any other human being.
He said that, in total, in the 10 municipalities of Avila there are 26 people, all older adults, with the unique condition of presenting a total or partial limitation of their senses of distance: vision and hearing.
In 1989, in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 27, International Day of Deafblind People was established, in commemoration of the birth of Helen Keller, the first deafblind person who demonstrated the capacity that her peers had and their basic needs.
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