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Zach, 19, who was diagnosed with autism as a child, had fewer than 10 miles to go in his first 100-mile race — something he had made his goal to do before turning 20.
Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and activities to 5 million participants and Unified Sports partners in 172 countries. [2]
Disability sports classification is a system that allows for fair competition between people with different types of disabilities.. Historically, the process has been overseen by 2 groups: specific disability type sport organizations that cover multiple sports, and specific sport organizations that cover multiple disability types including amputations, cerebral palsy, deafness, intellectual ...
[40] [41] Sports supported by the Special Olympics including track and field, soccer, basketball, ten-pin bowling, and aquatics. [5] Many of these sports have local and national organizations that have signed memorandums of understanding with their national Special Olympics organizations, with Gymnastics Australia being an example in Australia ...
Stories about nonverbal autistic teens rarely galvanize the public imagination. But when one such youth has made the transition in a few short years from having a limited ability to communicate to ...
Swim Team is a 2016 American documentary sports film about a competitive swim team of teenagers on the autism spectrum.The film was directed and produced by Lara Stolman. It premiered at the 2016 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and was released in theaters in the United States on July 7, 2017.
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Virtus Sport (formerly INAS or INAS Sport) (International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability; originally called INAS-FMH, later INAS-FID, INAS and now as Virtus Sport) is a federation which was established in 1986 by professionals in the Netherlands who were involved in sport and wanted to promote the participation of athletes with mental handicap in elite sports ...