Intellectual Disability

With the help of Special Olympics, she has come to love the water. Find out why that might have been unlikely several years ago.

David Egan has always dreamed big. Learn how he is changing attitudes toward people with intellectual disabilities.

David served as a Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation Public Policy Fellow, working with the powerful House Ways and Committee.

Her Super G run in Snowboarding at Special Olympics World Games in Austria wowed fans. Learn what helped her get there.

The Special Olympics chapter was recognized for its health program for people with intellectual disabilities throughout the country.

"She’s never going to achieve anything." That's what Lani's mom was told by a doctor. Watch to learn how Lani proved him (very) wrong.

When Macy's parents learned she had Down syndrome, they worried—but they knew Special Olympics could help. Watch their moving story.

A journey that began as one Maryland family’s battle for respect and acceptance for their daughter and sister, Rosa, became a significant milestone in the ongoing battle for dignity, inclusion and respect of all people with intellectual disabilities when United States President Barack Obama signed bill S.2781 into federal law on October 5, 2010.