A 10-year-old student, Alejandro Gonzalez, is learning Cuban history classes in sign language aired by Cuban TV, with closed caption during coronavirus lockdown.
“Learning the history of my country is like traveling in time and discovering a whole new world,” said Gonzalez.
Two weeks after the first confirmed cases of coronavirus were reported in Cuba on March 11, the island’s nearly 2,000 schools were closed, Xinhua reports.
In a bid to help students continue the academic year disrupted by coronavirus pandemic, Cuba’s education officials worked together with the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television to develop closed-captioned televised classes.
Gonzalez’s mother Yakelin Sanchez, a 36-year-old architect, has always been giving her son a helping hand during the classes.
She has learned sign language herself, so she could share with her son “the beauty and complexity of a world where more inclusion for people with disabilities is needed,” she said.
“Lessons help to not only break the communication barrier but also to provide disadvantaged students with crucial information and messages during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Sanchez said.
