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Healthy Start

Defining the Diagnosis

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Learning about developmental delay and intellectual disability will give you the tools to better understand and support your child. This knowledge will also help you build a proactive partnership with your child’s medical and educational team to build a plan of care.
Healthy Start

Taking Care of Yourself

While you are trying to give all the attention to address your child’s needs, it is important to remember to take good care of yourself. Maintaining your own health will give you the strength to better support your child. A few ways to maintain your wellbeing may include: practicing mindfulness, exercising, spending time with your other children, spouse and friends, and taking time for yourself.
Sports Essentials

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This video platform, much like the Special Olympics movement, is "Always On." Every day, every hour, there is a Special Olympics event taking place somewhere around the globe, impacting the lives of millions of individuals with intellectual disabilities both on and off the playing field. With 149 events happening daily (that's a staggering 53,779 events annually), there is always a story to be told about the movement.

Watch our videos and be inspired by the incredible stories of determination and inclusion.

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Motor Activity Training Program

Young girl being held up to put a basketball into the basket.
MATP is our Special Olympics movement-based sport program for athletes with profound intellectual disabilities who have high support needs.
Inclusion Works

Cheers for Champions 2025

Thousands of athletes with intellectual disabilities—from all around the globe—are preparing to compete and set new personal bests at the Special Olympics World Winter Games Turin 2025. This will be the largest sports and humanitarian event on the planet—and the first World Winter Games in eight years! The action begins March 8.

Join us as we build a future of inclusion and empowerment for people with intellectual disabilities in sports, education, health and leadership. Meet just a few of these extraordinary athletes:
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Special Champions League

The Special Champions League is a project that aims to enhance the social inclusion of people with an intellectual disability in society through a European Football project. Together with EFDN, SOEE, and eight distinguished football clubs, the plan is to set up a grassroots model for creating and managing a football team for athletes with intellectual disabilities. Young individuals over the age of 15 with intellectual disabilities will be provided with frequent opportunities to play football at a level they are comfortable with. Each football club will deliver regular training sessions, matches, social activities, and educational workshops for three four-month periods within their local community. By creating a method to develop local football teams to train and compete at a low level, they can participate in Special Champions League international match days all over Europe.

Special Olympics

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The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
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