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3 Reasons to Review Your Beneficiary Designations

Three Athletes sitting side by side giving thumbs up.
As we look ahead to the New Year, it’s a great time to tune up our plans. One often-overlooked task is updating beneficiary designations.
Athletes

Special Olympics Triathletes Battle It Out at Challenge Family Triathlon

an athlete in a blue camouflage uniform and a bike helmet walks alongside his bicycle
Triathlon Paves the Way for Inclusive Sport at the 3rd Annual Special Olympics European Open Triathlon
Our Words

Dialogue Scenario 1: When Friends or Family Use the R-word

Having a conversation with friends and family about the R-word can be uncomfortable. Use this dialogue to help you spread the word.
Our Words

Dialogue Scenario 2: Collecting R-word Pledges at an Event

Use this dialogue guide and tips to help you successfully articulate why the R-word is hurtful and harmful in everyday speech.
Youth Voices

Marcelo Gonzalez

Young man on a track, looking up and smiling.
“Why You Shouldn’t Say the R Word”
Athletes

The Special Bond Behind Erika Kalin's Incredible Performance

By Nance Larsen, March 21, 2017
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Erika Kalin listens for one voice when she competes—her training guide Reinhart Shultz. Read about their incredible connection.
Community Impact

Why the R-Word Is the R-Slur

A group of unified students promoting Spread the Word
Practice Inclusion: End the Use of the R-Word The research shows that when social media users are posting about people with intellectual disabilities, 7 in every 10 of those posts are negative, and 6 in 10 contain a slur.
Community Impact

Special Olympics Malta Athlete Leader Gilmour Borg Speaks At EU World Mental Health Day Conference

Special Olympics Athlete Leader Gilmour Borg giving a speech.
Special Olympics Health Messenger Gilmour Borg shared his compelling journey from enduring bullying to emerging as an Athlete Leader, at the European Union's (EU) World Mental Health Conference in Brussels, Belgium.
In the News

Global State of Inclusion in Education: Promises Made Must Become Promises Kept

Tim Shriver and young boy in a motorized wheelchair sharing a laugh.
The infrastructure of exclusion wasn’t built in a day, and it won’t be dismantled in a day. Moving beyond incremental steps in transforming education systems will require urgent, coordinated action—led by governments, civil society and international organizations—to transform education systems and deliver true inclusion for all learners.
Athletes

Our Reality TV Moment

Boy smiling sitting on bleachers holding a basketball wearing a red Special Olympics tank top with a team sign, "Hurricanes" in the background.
Taublieb Films came to Portland, Maine from Malibu, California a couple weeks ago to film us.
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