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Healthy Communities Creating Brighter, Healthier Future For Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities

This post was written in collaboration with Lindsay DuBois, Senior Manager, Research & Evaluation at Special Olympics, Kristin Hughes Srour, Director…

Bravo to the Justice Department

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a guest blog post by Angela Ciccolo, Chief Legal Officer for Special Olympics.

Bravo to the U.S. Justice Department for announcing its agreement with the city of Baltimore, Maryland! Under a consent decree, the city…

Dignity Shouldn’t Stop at the Operating Room Door

By Tim Shriver

It’s summer time and most people are disengaged from the day to day. That’s a good thing. Rest is a vastly underrated key to a healthy quality of life.

Amelia Rivera, Our Symbol of Justice

By Tim Shriver

There is much good news to share from New Jersey over the last two weeks.

A Call to Be Fearless

By Tim Shriver

The International AIDS Conference was held this year for the first time in the US since 1990. But like every one before it, there was little attention to the needs of people with intellectual disabilities (ID). And this, despite the fact that people…

End the Name Calling!

By Tim Shriver

Here we go again. Yet another prominent figure on the world stage makes the tragic mistake of trying to ridicule someone else (or himself) by name calling. And in this case, Swiss football player, Michel Morganella not only called his South Korean…

Making the Impossible Possible

At the USAID Panel last Wednesday, “From Policy to Action: Making Progress toward Disability Inclusion,” USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah stated “One billion people live with disabilities. There is an opportunity to unlock the human potential of this population.” Every…