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Kathryn Jackson

Kathryn Jackson - Special Olympics North Carolina US Youth Ambassador
North Carolina
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Best Buddies UCI Ends the R-word

Best Buddies UCI Ends the R-word
Via BestBuddiesorama You Tube channel: You might not mean anything by it, but when you use the "R-word" you are hurting a person with an intellectual and developmental disability. Join Best Buddies at UCI in taking the pledge to end the use of the "R-word"
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Special Olympics is a global organization that athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.

It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle of transformation takes place.

Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.

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Hannah Huddleson

Hannah Huddleson - SOPA - US Youth Ambassador
Pennsylvania

The Flame of Hope Heralds the 2017 Games

2017 Torch Lighting
Focused rays of the sun lit the Flame of Hope for the Special Olympics World Winter Games Austria 2017.
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iCoachKids and Special Olympics announce partnership to improve coaching and sports for people with intellectual disabilities

coach talking to an athlete while the athlete listens intently.
Tokyo, Japan - 1 November 2019: iCoachKids, a project to provide innovative learning and development opportunities for those coaching children and young people, today announced a partnership with Special Olympics, the global movement that unleashes the human spirit through the transformative power of inclusion through sport, leadership development, health, school engagement and youth leadership.
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Spectrum Designs Find the Perfect Fit with Inclusion

Three young men, Spectrum employees, sitting on chairs and one standing; all four are in a storage room with shelves and supplies. A sign in the background says: Fulfill your dreams.
Special Olympics is excited to celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month!
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