III International Scientific Conference "Challenges of Education 2023"

The community project and its impact on care for people with disabilities

The university as a social institution, has countless responsibilities with the community, therefore, it must extend its action and services to this, in order to contribute to the development and transformation of society. The need to consolidate the capacity to provide solutions to problems motivates the link between the university and the community through university extension, and community projects are one of the fundamental ways to achieve this. In Cuba, the educational attention to students with intellectual disabilities is a priority to be assumed by the professionals involved in their education, as well as by the members of their families and other educational agents. In this way, the educational potentialities of the student with special educational needs are taken advantage of by acting on the development of his personality according to the social context and its demands. The aim of the essay is to address the fundamentals of the educational care of people with intellectual disabilities in their link with community projects to promote their quality of life and social integration.

La universidad como institución social, tiene innumerables responsabilidades con la comunidad, por lo tanto, debe extender su acción y sus servicios a esta, con el fin de contribuir al desarrollo y transformación de la sociedad.La necesidad de consolidar la capacidad de aportar soluciones a los problemas motiva el vínculo de la universidad con la comunidad a través de la extensión universitaria, constituyendo los proyectos comunitarios, una de las vías fundamentales para lograrlo. En Cuba la atención educativa a los educandos con discapacidad intelectual constituye una prioridad que deben asumir los profesionales implicados en su educación, así como los miembros de su familia y otros agentes educativos. De esta manera se aprovechan las potencialidades educativas del educando con necesidades educativas especiales actuando sobre el desarrollo de su personalidad acorde al contexto social y sus exigencias. El objetivo del ensayo consiste en abordar los fundamentos de la atención educativa de las personas con discapacidad intelectual en su vínculo con los proyectos comunitarios para favorecer su calidad de vida e inserción social.