On July 4, the National Association of the Deaf (ANSOC) in Havana will begin a workshop on the Cuban Sign Language (LSC), aimed at hearing people from society in general, interested in forms of cultural interaction with the community not listener

The inauguration will take place on July 4, at 9:00 a.m. at the headquarters of the Computing Palace located in the Havana municipality of Centro Habana, that same day Professor Ángel López Martínez will give a conference related to the characteristics of the deaf community. Subsequently, the particularities of the course will be explained to those present, who will be divided into two groups.

Dony Wilson Limonta, president of the ANSOC in the capital, informed Tribuna La Habana that the workshop is free, does not set an age limit for the participants, will run until July 15 and will meet between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. and 12:00 noon.

He also explained that its purpose is to transmit to the participants the basic knowledge related to this population segment and its natural language of expression and to teach about this natural alternative of expression to help eliminate communication barriers.

In the capital, ANSOC brings together more than 3,050 associates; and this organization's mission is to work for the inclusion of deaf people with the rest of society on equal terms, as well as to ensure that hearing disability does not constitute an obstacle to that purpose.