By Ardul Butsiri I have not met my biological family for more than a decade. I was born into a family of 10 children, and my parents were drug addicts. They were incarcerated when I was a child, and the...
Healthy Communities Healthy Communities is a model Special Olympics program ensuring year-round access to health care and prevention programming for all people with ID at the community level. Healthy Communities’ goal is to achieve improved health outcomes f...
Fakfang Areya Soonghangwah Fakfang has a hearing disability from birth but that did not stop her from pursuing hee studies to college level. She is currently a 3rd year Computer student at Rajabhat Ubol Rachathani University. The reason she chose...
Healthy Athletes Program People with intellectual disabilities lack access to quality health care and experience dramatically higher rates of preventable disease, chronic pain and suffering, and premature death in every country around the world. In countries s...
Special Olympics Young Athletes Program Special Olympics Young Athletes is a sport and play program for children with and without Intellectual Disabilities, ages 2 to 7 years old. Young Athletes introduces basic sport skills, like running, kicking and throwing...
Special Olympics Athlete Leadership Program Athlete Leadership Program( ALP) offers matured athletes the opportunity take part in the Special Olympics Movement in meaningful roles in addition to being a sportsman or sportswoman. Athlete leaders are empowered t...
Sports Competition Special Olympics offer competitions at all levels for every athlete. The World Games are flagship events for the Special Olympics Movement. They take place every two years, alternating between Summer and Winter Games, and these can be the...
Special Olympics Thailand Coaching Development Certification Program Personnel of all S.O. Thailand’s member schools / centers can participate in S.O. Thailand’s Coaching Development Certification Program in all 8 official Sports – Athletics, Swimming, B...
Milestones Important Milestones related to the Development of Special Olympics Thailand are 1968 Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics Movement The first Special Olympics Competition was organized 1987 Special Olympics Thailand was founded ...
About Special Olympics Special Olympics is an international organization that unleashes the human spirit through the transformative power and joy of sports everyday around the world. Through work in sports, health, education and community building, Special Oly...