2007 Special Olympics Global Youth Summit Shanghai, China 2-11 October 2007 During the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Shanghai, we will bring together young leaders with and without intellectual disability so that Special Olympics can learn by their examples ways to better involve young people and Special Olympics athletes worldwide. Special Olympics believes that youth can make a difference in friendships, schools and communities; Special Olympics recognizes that through sports training and competition, people with intellectual disability inspire hope, dignity, and courage; Special Olympics invites youth to understand and to value their peers with intellectual disability and empowers youth to create opportunities for and with them in friendships through sport. Learn more about how you can get involved.