Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities in order to create continuing opportunities for them to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience the joy of achievement, be included in the community, build skills, and make friends.
Special Olympics Indiana is a nonprofit organization funded through private donations and fundraising projects across the state.
Special Olympics provides a variety of competition opportunities for athletes of all abilities by offering official events of various degrees of difficulty and challenge. Most Special Olympics events have few differences from the sport played by individuals without disabilities.
Unified Sports® combines persons with and without intellectual disabilities on the same team for training and competition. Indiana is a world leader in the development of Unified Sports® programs in a variety of sports.