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HOPE FOR THE FUTURE—Life Lesson from East Asia Youth Leaders

HOPE FOR THE FUTURE—Life Lesson from East Asia Youth Leaders
Unified athletes and teammates in East Asia have been experiencing the pandemic longer than anyone. Seeing better times—and more Special Olympics activities!—coming, they encourage everyone to look ahead with optimism and make hopeful plans for the future, just like they've been doing!
Sport and Competition

Officials with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities IDD

Officials with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities IDD
Listen to Hassam and Garrett’s journeys to becoming an official, and the benefits that being an official has for them.
Tributes

A Letter from President Jimmy Carter

The success and growth of the Special Olympics is a fitting legacy.
Tributes

A Letter from Suzanne Mubarak

She was a woman of great insight and personality; a true advocate, a true fighter.
Sports

Basketball

Basketball Lead
Basketball is a favorite Special Olympics sport. This basketball sport center draws together sport news and stories, upcoming events and links to the Special Olympics Basketball Coaching Guide.
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The Gambia

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Special Olympics is a global organization that serves 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.
Tributes

A Letter from Kathie Lee Gifford

Very few individuals in history have had the impact on as many lives as Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
50 Game Changers Portuguese

Dr. Steve Perlman

A volunteer giving an athlete and oral exam while Dr. Perlman looks on.
Na década de 1990, o Dr. Steve Perlman e Eunice Kennedy Shriver se reuniram em Washington, D.C. para discutir a dificuldade de acesso a cuidados de saúde para pessoas com deficiência intelectual, pois, muitas vezes, não eram aceitos pelos sistemas de saúde para tratamentos médicos.
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Tanzania

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Special Olympics is a global organization that serves 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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Botswana

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Special Olympics is a global organization that serves 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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