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Atletas de Olimpiadas Especiales Panamá en una demostración del programa Atletas Jóvenes de Olimpiadas Especiales
Press release
10 August 2023
Special Olympics and UNICEF join efforts to protect the rights of children with disabilities in Latin America and the Caribbean
The partnership will contribute so that more children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities can exercise their rights without any type of discrimination, through their active inclusion in sports.
UNICEF Panamá/2021
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09 October 2022
All children learn in Panama
UNICEF Country Office
On 23 November 2016 in Haiti, (left to right) Élodie (7), Givelore (8), Francesca (6), Érica (8) gather outside their school, the Notre Dame de Lourdes school, in Jérémie.
Page
08 October 2022
Access to education
All children and adolescents have the right to education.
Explainer
08 October 2022
Explore our resources
Access studies, orientation guides, articles and a variety of materials.
02 August 2019. Growing up with a hearing disability, Thobias 13-year-old 6th grader (interacting with his mother) is no stranger to different forms of discrimination as a child. His parents initially enrolled him in a “special” school for deaf students. However, he found the environment to be challenging.
Report
26 September 2022
Voices of adolescents and young people with disabilities
Results of a Rapid Assessment in 11 Latin America countries.

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Training of teachers participating in the first Accessible Digital Textbook (ADT) pilot in Paraguay.
Page
16 June 2022
Resources of the Accessible Digital Textbooks initiative
Knowledge that contributes to transform the education.
Training of teachers participating in the first Accessible Digital Textbook (ADT) pilot in Paraguay.
Article
16 June 2022
Paraguay pilot experience
Accessible Digital Textbooks that transform education.
Heisell Tellez, 27, (left) and Hosten Alemán, 26, (right) watch videos of the therapies with their daughter Rouss Alemán (center), who -- after the therapies -- has managed to walk and perform daily activities, in their home in Jinotepe, Nicaragua on September 6th, 2020.
Article
16 June 2022
Nicaragua pilot experience
Accessible Digital Textbooks that transform education.
Congreso 29_0
Article
16 June 2022
Uruguay pilot experience
Accessible digital textbooks that transform education.
Cboard -- an AAC open source web application for children and adults with speech and language impairments, aiding communication with symbols and text-to-speech.
Page
16 June 2022
Regional pilot experiences of the ADT initiative
Find out about the countries in the region that have joined the ADT initiative.