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Best Buddies UCI Ends the R-word

Via BestBuddiesorama You Tube channel: You might not mean anything by it, but when you use the "R-word" you are hurting a person with an intellectual and developmental disability. Join Best Buddies at UCI in taking the pledge to end the use of the "R-word"

"Not Acceptable" PSA

"Not Acceptable" is a powerful and compelling PSA which gives voice to a variety of diverse communities each of whom expresses that it is not acceptable to call them by what were once common words...

SORI Executive Director, Dennis DeJesus, Spreads the Word

News clip from March 3, 2010 on Fox Network’s ‘The Rhode Show’ in Providence, featuring Special Olympics Rhode Island Executive Director, Dennis DeJesus.

CBS The Talk on 'Not Acceptable' R-word PSA

"The Talk" on CBS discussed the "Not Acceptable" PSA on May 25, 2011. Here is the clip posted for educational and awareness purposes.

Eddie Barbanell Speaks at the University of Texas – Part 1

Special Olympics Board Director, actor and Special Olympics Florida athlete Eddie Barbanell talks to students at the University of Texas at Austin about the R-word.

John C. McGinley and the Strikers All-Stars Rally - Part 2

Check out this elementary school rally and dance performance for "Spread the Word to End the Word" with "Scrubs" actor John C. McGinley and MTV's Strikers All-Stars dance team.

John C. McGinley and the Strikers All-Stars Rally - Part 1

Check out this elementary school rally and dance performance for "Spread the Word to End the Word" with "Scrubs" actor John C. McGinley and MTV's Strikers All-Stars dance team.

Road Trip to End the Word

In the summer of 2011, 3 students travelled across 36 states over the course of 78 days on a mission to spread social acceptance and inclusion around the United States.

R-word Word of the Week

Words have power. Use them carefully. The word "retard" has been twisted into a slur from very simple, humble beginnings. Also, I think there may be gods in the pantheon we weren't aware of. Spooky.

Who Do You Call the R-Word?

Kerry Magro describes why he wants to stop derogatory use of the R-word.