Do you know Special Olympics?
Special Olympics is offering an opportunity for children and adults with intellectual disability to earn year-round sports training. It also often hosts athletic competitions for those to participate as a non-profit international sports organization. Such competitions improve physical ability of ones with intellectual disability and allow them to adjust to the society better. This is action of Special Olympics global movement. Origin of Special Olympics Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded Special Olympics in 1968 because of her passionate conviction that persons with intellectual disabilities, young and old, could take part in and benefit from competitive sports. Eunice Kennedy Shriver opened a daily camp for persons with intellectual disabilities in Maryland in 1963. Shriver found that people with disabilities were much more athletic and had greater abilties in physcial activities than most professionals had thought. Shriver had Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. foundation sponsor them to host the fir...
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