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Community Impact

Lighting the Way Series, Part 2: Parent Perspective

A group of five people sit on a rail and point to mountain in the background.
Family engagement is more than attending events—it’s about taking an active role in helping the development of Special Olympics athletes and Programs.
Athletes

Kayla Cornell Has a Message for Fellow Special Olympics Athletes: Let’s Get Healthy Together

By RJ Nealon, March 26, 2022
A Special Olympics athlete stands in a kitchen. She's cutting vegetables.
Kayla Cornell is the head chef in her cooking class for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
Healthy Start

Defining the Diagnosis

Open Water Swimming Sport Center
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

Defining the Diagnosis

Open Water Swimming Sport Center
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

Defining the Diagnosis

Open Water Swimming Sport Center
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.
Press Releases

Special Olympics Releases 2022 Faces of Inclusion Books: Stories of Inclusion

Members of the Youth Leaders Council, including Omnia (top left) and Sherif (far right), pose together after an activity.
Special Olympics has launched their second annual “Faces of Inclusion” book highlighting individuals impacted by the organization’s Unified Schools programming, which is a school offering Special Olympics Unified Sports.
Community Impact

A Father’s Struggle to Learn Acceptance—An extraordinary Journey

Man with his two young kids.
In Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China, there’s a heartwarming story about a young boy with Down syndrome who, with his father’s support, became a champion.
Press Releases

Special Olympics Calls on G7 Nations to Strengthen Commitment to Disability Inclusion at Historic Summit

group of five people, two women on the left and right and a man in a wheelchair in the center.
[Umbria, Italy - Oct. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/] At the first-ever G7 Ministers' Meeting on Inclusion and Disability, held in Umbria, Italy from October 14 – 16, 2024, Special Olympics CEO Mary Davis commended attending governments for pledging to take actionable steps to remove barriers for persons with disabilities, but called on leaders to commit to more ambitious financing and to institutionalize advancing disability rights in all subsequent G7 presidencies.
In the News

Special Olympics Asia Pacific Badminton Competition Expands Inclusive Sports Landscape for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the Region

Athletes and officials in colorful uniforms pose together on a badminton court in front of banners for the Special Olympics Asia Pacific Regional Badminton Competition 2025.
The Special Olympics Asia Pacific Badminton Competition recently wrapped up, with 80 badminton players, including 63 athletes with intellectual and developmental disabilities and 17 unified partners.
Community Impact

Lighting the Way Series, Part 5: One Father's Journey and a Decade of Transformation

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Families—parents, caregivers, siblings, and other supporters—play a major role in the Special Olympics movement.
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