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Special Olympics Showcases Inclusion and Innovation at AAIDD 2025

Four women stand next to each other for a photo with purple drapes hanging in the background.
Members of the Special Olympics International Health and Unified Champion Schools (UCS) teams attended and presented at the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) Conference from 23 – 25 June 2025.
Sports & Coaching

Triathlon

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Coaching guide, rules and other materials for coaches.
Sport and Competition

World Winter Games Alaska 2001

An athlete skier skiing down the hills.
Anchorage, Alaska • 4th – 11th March 2001

2022 Special Olympics USA Games Commemorative Certificate

This year’s 2022 Special Olympics USA Games in Orlando—our largest USA Games in history—brought together over 5,500 athletes, Unified partners, and coaches together for competition in 19 sports. It was an incredible week of achievement and celebration, filled with lasting memories, and remarkable integrity, determination and tenacity shown by our athletes and Unified partners. You can commemorate the event with our 2022 Special Olympics USA Games Commemorative Certificate. Just fill out the form below to receive your certificate today.
Partners of the Movement

Procter & Gamble Company

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P&G is one of Special Olympics’ longstanding corporate partners, having supported the movement for 38 years.
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Curacao

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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.

Download the Special Olympics Curacao Fact Sheet
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Aruba

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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.

Download the Special Olympics Aruba Fact Sheet
Sport Partnerships

International Tennis Federation

On August 30th, 2016, in New York, USA a proclamation was signed between the International Tennis Federation and Special Olympics proclaiming the agreement of a long-term framework to provide more opportunities in the sport of tennis to people with and without an intellectual disability.
Sport Partnerships

International Judo Federation

The International Judo Federation (IJF) is a non-profit association composed of national judo federations and continental unions. Each national federation must be recognized as the sole federation authorized to represent its country in international sporting bodies by its Olympic committee. Continental unions oversee the implementation of IJF and IOC policy. Today the IJF brings together 205 national federations and 5 continental unions. In partnership with its members, continental unions and national judo federations, the IJF is committed to further improvements within judo, not only as a sport but also as a contributor to sustainable and responsible societal development. The IJF fosters the unity and excellence of Judo players, who serve as inspirational role models for people from diverse backgrounds.
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