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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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Athletes

Despite Injury, Abhishek Stays on Course—and Wins Silver in the 10K!

8 people, from the left, one Ethiad representative, a male trainer, 5 athletes including Abhishek with a bandage on his hand and another trainer.
Abhishek Gogoi said he would do his best at World Games—and he did.
Videos

How Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics | FanSided

How Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics | FanSided
Eunice Kennedy Shriver would have turned 100 years old this year. Her life work bringing people together from different backgrounds through sport continues today through her children and grandchildren. This is how Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics.

10 second portrait - Ben Haack

10 second portrait - Ben Haack

Elyse Whittmore

Youth Ambassador
Hello, my name is Elyse and I am a senior at Auburn High School in Auburn, MA. I have been involved with the Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools Program for about three years and have been involved with Special Olympics for about seven. At my high school, I participate in Unified Track and my school’s friendship club. I am also a member of my state’s Special Olympics Youth Activation Council. Personally, the inclusion revolution is important to me because EVERYBODY deserves to be meaningfully included into society. Inclusion should be a right, not a privilege! I want to live in a society where the inclusion of people with and without disabilities is second nature.
Athletes

Resilience and Success: Yang Le's Story

Yang Le and two additional images of him playing table tennis with his team mate.
Inclusion helps everyone—as Yang Le knows. He’s gone from employee with intellectual disabilities to employer, working with people with intellectual disabilities—and without!
In the News

Special Olympics Joins Inclusive Employment and Leadership Campaign

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On 22 October, Autism Speaks, Best Buddies and Special Olympics, in partnership with the Entertainment Industry Foundation, announced the launch of Delivering Jobs, an inclusion campaign designed to create pathways to one million employment and leadership opportunities for people with autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and other intellectual and developmental differences by 2025.
Community Impact

Health Focus: Building Healthy Communities

By Aoife O'Grady, August 16, 2018
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Every day fantastic, innovative work is happening within the health sphere in Special Olympics—contributing to our Inclusion Revolution! One fine example is the Healthy Communities programme, supported by the Golisano Foundation.
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Cleveland Browns Quarterback, Baker Mayfield Auctions Off Cleats to Benefit Special Olympics

Baker Mayfield warming up; he's in a yellow hoody, a gray Browns hat, with head phones on while throwing a pass with a(n) (American) football.
More than 800 NFL players raised money and awareness for organizations supporting various causes by wearing custom cleats during the 2018 regular season.
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