Special Olympics Explained

Usually, when people talk about sports for persons with disabilities what comes to their mind is physical impairment or visually impaired sport events. Intellectual disability is not mental health case; it is a condition resulting from slow development usually occurring before the age of 18. Because it’s not a sickness, it cannot be cured.

Because it’s a developmental condition, it can improve and is very trainable. For some reasons, persons with intellectual disabilities are not very much included in sports conversation and I don’t know if it is because their impairment is no visible or there could be some other reasons that I am not aware of. They have their own games called the Special Olympics which are managed by an organisation called Special Olympics International.