The president of the Central Board of Directors (Codicen) of the ANEP, Robert Silva; the Minister of Housing and Territorial Planning, Irene Moreira; the undersecretary, Tabaré Hackembruch, the president of the ANV, Klaus Mill von Metzen, and the general director of Secondary Education, Jenifer Cherro.
The new dependency will be called Adolescent Attention House with TEA and will work under the orbit of the General Directorate of Secondary Education.
On the occasion, Moreira argued that it is the Government that must develop this type of pioneering actions, to give more opportunities to children and adolescents with this disability. In addition, he highlighted the teamwork carried out by the portfolio and ANEP. “Today we reached a goal,” he celebrated.
Silva, meanwhile, asserted that the beneficiary population of this agreement needs solutions and that is what is achieved with this articulation. Likewise, he recognized the member of the Codicen Dora Graziano and the deputy director of Secondary Education, Óscar Yáñez, for their leadership in the ANEP for this project.
He also reported that the State Health Services Administration (ASSE) and the Social Welfare Bank (BPS) will participate in this house.
Regarding the work for an inclusive education, the hierarch indicated that it implies a lot of coordination and effort and mentioned two more examples regarding this point: Hospital Classrooms, for secondary education, and the accreditation of knowledge of students of special training in Primary, through the University of Labor of Uruguay (UTU). “It is a set of actions that we carry out,” he remarked.
In addition, he valued the experience of the Secondary School in this matter, with the resource centers for deaf and blind students.
Mill von Metzen stated, in his speech, that this agreement took a long time of work by the technical teams and he praised ANEP’s attitude of being a pioneer in this type of care.
