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In recent years, Special Olympics has made it a strategic priority to work more closely with sport federations to demonstrate the unique ability of sports to serve as a vehicle for social inclusion for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
Special Olympics uses sport to empower children & adults with an intellectual disability to enhance their health and wellbeing.
Special Olympics World Games are held every two years, alternating with Summer and Winter Games. The next Special Olympics World Games be Special Olympics World Games in 2023 in Berlin , Germany. Our most recent Games were the Special Olympics World Games in March 2019 in Abu Dhabi, UAE .
- There are 5.5 million athletes with intellectual disabilities involved in Special Olympics programs around the world. In addition, we have more tha...
- To provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabi...
- To be eligible to participate in Special Olympics, you must be at least 8 years old and identified by an agency or professional as having one of th...
- Eunice Mary Kennedy (1921 – 2009) was born in Brookline, Mass., USA, the fifth of nine children of Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy. After graduating fro...
- Mary Davis is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Special Olympics, leading the organization and all of its functions in seeking to fulfill the missio...
- Rosemary Kennedy (1918 – 2005) was the oldest daughter of Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy.Rosemary was born with intellectual disabilities and was known...
- From the Peace Corps to Head Start to Special Olympics and beyond, Robert Sargent "Sarge" Shriver (1915 – 2011) worked to give everyone the chance...
- "Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt."
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver jotted down the Special Olympics athlete oath on the morning of July 20, 1968—just ahead of the opening of the very first Sp...
- The 2019 Special Olympics
- Making Progress
- Looking Forwards
The Special Olympics World Summer Games have just taken place in Abu Dhabi, where 7,000 athletes and 3,000 coachesfrom 168 countries gathered to compete and to celebrate the achievements of sportspeople with intellectual disabilities. This year’s event was the largest in the 50-year history of the Special Olympics, and offers an international pedes...
The Special Olympic programme is reliant on volunteers, and outside of the Games itself is a movement that prides itself on ensuring that all people can be involved in sports, regardless of any disability. According to the charity Mind, only1-in-6 disabled people regularly play sportcompared to a typical average of 1-in-3 in the wider population. T...
As important as the immediacy of improved awareness and participation in disability sports is, the potential impact on future generations is also tremendously valuable. Many children with disabilities can be left seeing themselves as ‘other’ – isolated, however slightly, from their peers by the perceived restrictions of their differences. If childr...
Jun 19, 2023 · As a huge multi-sport event, spread across venues in one the world's most prominent cities, the Special Olympics resembles the other members of the Olympic family - but it has a unique approach...
Jun 8, 2021 · The Special Olympic movement in Great Britain wants to grow participation in sport for people with an intellectual disability to record numbers as it tries to recover from the "devastating...
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Oct 26, 2021 · How do competitions like Special Olympics contribute to athletes’ feelings of competence and confidence within themselves? The things that motivate individuals to participate help to define who they are, whether that’s their job or where they went to school.
