MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of Special Olympics is to
provide year-round sports training and competition in a variety of
Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities,
giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness,
demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of
gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other Special
Olympics athletes, and the community.
PHILOSOPHY
Special Olympics is founded on the belief that people with intellectual disabilities can, with proper instruction and encouragement, learn, enjoy, and benefit from participation in individual and team sports.
Special Olympics believes that consistant training is essential to the development of sports skills, and that competition among those of equal abilities is the most appropriate means of testing these skills, measuring progress and providing incentives for personal growth.
Special Olympics believes that through sports training and competition, people with intellectual disabilities benefit physically, mentally, socially and spiritually; families are strengthed; and the community at large, both through participation and observation, is united in understanding people with intellectual disabilities in an environment of equality, respect and acceptance.
"In Special Olympics it is not the strongest body or the most dazzling mind that counts.
It is the invincible spirit which overcomes all handicaps.
