In Cuba, educational attention to students with intellectual disabilities is a priority that must be assumed by the professionals involved in their education, as well as by their family members and other educational agents. The objective of this research is expressed in characterizing the academic attention to people with intellectual disabilities in a Popular Council of the city of Santa Clara, Villa Clara Province, from its link with community projects as part of the development of university extension to enrich the university-society relationship. The methodology in this research is a qualitative approach with a descriptive scope, 17 people with disabilities were selected as a sample following the non-probabilistic intentional criterion. The intention is expressed in knowing the reality of this process from the application of empirical methods and the use of theoretical methods for its understanding and substantiation of the subject. The results revealed the potentialities and needs that characterize this educational attention in the community context, the need to consolidate the university-society link, and new ways to achieve it.