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2. Special Olympics - Wikipedia

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   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] Special Olympics competitions are held daily, all around the world—including local, national and regional ...

3. Parasports - Wikipedia

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   Parasports. Iris Pruysen competes in the long jump at the 2014 Paris Athletics Paralympic Meeting. Parasports are sports played by people with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities. [1] Some parasports are forms of adapted physical activities from existing non-disabled sports, while others have been specifically created ...

4. Yuba County Five - Wikipedia

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   June 5, 1978. The Yuba County Five were a group of young men from Yuba County, California, United States, each with mild intellectual disabilities or psychiatric conditions, who were reported missing after attending a college basketball game at California State University, Chico (also known as Chico State), on the night of February 24, 1978. [1]

5. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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   Lists. v. t. e. The following is a list of terms, used to describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities. Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1]

6. Intellectual disability - Wikipedia

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   Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom [3]) and formerly mental retardation (in the United States [4]), [5][6] is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significant impairment in intellectual and adaptive functioning that is first apparent during childhood.

7. Clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation - Wikipedia

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   The Clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation is a community mental health service model that helps people with a history of serious mental illness rejoin society and maintain their place in it; it builds on people's strengths and provides mutual support, along with professional staff support, for people to receive prevocational work training, educational opportunities, and social support.

8. Inclusive recreation - Wikipedia

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   Inclusive recreation, also known as adaptive or accessible recreation, is a concept whereby people with disabilities are given the opportunity to participate in recreational activities. Through the use of activity modifications and assistive technology, athletes or participants in sports or other recreational pursuits are able to play alongside ...

9. L'Arche - Wikipedia

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   The first community in Canada, L'Arche Daybreak, was founded in 1969 in Richmond Hill, Ontario, near Toronto. Sue Mosteller, who lived with the Daybreak community for 40 years, acted as L'Arche's first International Coordinator after Jean Vanier. [11] Dutch priest and spiritual writer Henri Nouwen also lived with the Daybreak community for ...