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In the News

Closing the Mental Health Gap for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Two people facing each other talking
Future of Personal Health captures the impactful work being accomplished by Special Olympics to mitigate the gap in mental health care for people with disabilities. The following is an excerpt from the article titled Closing the Mental Health Gap for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities:
Videos

SONA Regional Athlete Congress Overview

SONA Regional Athlete Congress Overview
History in the making! 🙌 Watch what happened when 25 Special Olympics athlete leaders from Canada, the Caribbean, and the U.S. gathered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for the first-ever SONA Regional Athlete Congress.
Athletes

Taste of Victory: China’s Top Scorer Leads his Team to Success

A man holding a floorball stick runs across a court in an arena
Although the city of Turin offered sites, history, and iconic Italian cuisine, the only thing on this floorball player’s mind was victory.
In the News

The Global State of Inclusion in Education: The Year of the Teacher

Tim Shriver talking to a young girl.
A global call to action urging governments and systems to invest in teachers as the foundation of inclusive, equitable education for all learners.
In the News

Texas A&M University to Open 4-year Residential College Program for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Girl standing in the grass holding a sign that reads: Congratulations! ATM i'm the newest loudest and proudest member of the fightin texas aggies!
Texas A&M University will open Aggie ACHIEVE program this fall where young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Aggie ACHIEVE is an inclusive, certificate-based, four-year education program.
Athletes

Special Olympics Athletes Model for VOGUE Germany

Heidi Kuder, Natascha Wermelskirchen and Tamara Röske sitting next to one another as they pose for photos.
This excerpt is from the Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023’s article, “Our athletes model for VOGUE Germany.”
Partners of the Movement

European Union

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European Union – A Committed Supporter of Special Olympics
Community Impact

Hasbro Celebrates the Power of Youth and Unified Champion Schools in New Video

Special Olympics Great Britain athletes play Unified basketball
Hasbro has been a partner of Special Olympics and the Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools® program since 2016, supporting the expansion of inclusive school programming in the United States (Washington, Rhode Island, Florida, California) and globally (Canada, India, Great Britain, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia).
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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.
Community Impact

Changing Mindsets in Jamaica: Cecil's Journey

By Brendan Scully, April 11, 2022
Special Olympics staff and a Unified football team pose together.
A principal in Jamaica shares his plan to make schools more inclusive to students of all abilities.
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