What is Inclusion? - SpecialOlympics.org
Since Special Olympics was founded in 1968, inclusion has been central to our mission and programs: fighting for the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities through the power of sports.
Inclusion Works - SpecialOlympics.org
This fall, Special Olympics is celebrating how inclusion makes everybody’s life better. By highlighting how “Inclusion Works!,” we are proving how much more welcoming and meaningful our world can be when we are ALL included.
The Revolution Is Inclusion
More than 50 years ago, Special Olympics launched a global sports movement to break down barriers and end discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities. Since then, this peaceful revolution has been changing lives all around the world.
Special Olympics and the EASEL Lab believe young people can learn to be includers by thinking and acting in ways that are inclusive. Thinking and acting inclusively will make the world a better place.
The Special Olympics Inclusive Health Fundamentals curriculum is an interprofessional and evidence-based program that introduces the concept of providing high quality, inclusive care to people with intellectual and developmental
To understand why Special Olympics has such a fundamental stake in inclusive education, it helps to recall the world that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities inhabited in 1968, the year our movement was born. Exclusion was …
Social Inclusion of Students With Intellectual Disabilities: Global ...
Special Olympics Unified Schools is a co-curricular model that uses the inclusive sports model, Special Olympics Unified Sports, as a platform to promote meaningful social inclusion by bringing together young people with and without ID to lead in the …
Inclusive Health Principles and Strategies
This resource provides principles and strategies to help you ensure the full and sustainable inclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in health policies and laws, programming, services, training programs, research, and funding streams.
Why Inclusion Is Important - SpecialOlympics.org
Special Olympics stands for inclusion. We were founded in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver because people with intellectual disabilities had been sidelined, marginalized, and isolated for too long. Since then, we’ve been promoting inclusion by using sports as …
CDC and Special Olympics: Inclusive Health
Dec 18, 2024 · CDC and Special Olympics have joined forces to increase the number of people with intellectual disabilities who participate in year-round wellness programming that includes flexible fitness intervention models and resources to …