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Introducing a whole new way to exercise, featuring WWE Superstar Becky Lynch. Work out with these videos five times a week to help you stay fit and reach your athletic goals.
Practice may have been cancelled due to Coronavirus, but you can stay fit and ready for when practice starts again! Fit 5 and Fitness Cards can help our athletes to keep on track.
Staying Fit at Home can be FUN with BINGO! The board is filled with links to workouts and other exciting activities. Each week, we challenge you to fill out the ENTIRE board and have fun while doing it.
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Spend 5 minutes every day from April 20 – May 17 practicing a Strong Minds stress reducing technique.
Special Olympics athletes have skills and abilities beyond sports. In a new Expert Tip video series, athletes share their know-how on a range of helpful and popular topics.
Special Olympics Maryland athlete, Robert Jones has a passion for art and design and uses his artistic ability to represent Special Olympics in various ways.
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Hanna Joy Atkinson, a Sargent Shriver International Global Messenger from Colorado, shares these tips to have fun and keep busy while indoors.
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Los Angeles-based Unified Schools teammates, Diego Salazar and Iantha Kahn, served up some savory salads with Mara Sampo’ and Chef Massimo Denaro from Sfixio in Beverly Hills during the “Special Olympics Live” stream-a-thon.
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Looking for a way to bring your black and white illustrations to life? In this video, Bobby Jones, Special Olympics Virginia, demonstrates how to color in pictures using Adobe Illustrator.
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Loretta Claiborne is the Vice Chair of the Special Olympics Board of Directors and athlete from Pennsylvania. In this expert tip video, she demonstrates how to make a friendship bracelet.
Looking to recording an interesting podcast that keeps people’s attention? Award-winning and veteran podcaster, Dan Smrokowski (Special Olympics Illinois) offers these tips on how to create compelling content for audio and video podcasts.
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1. Additional Advocacy Opportunities and Strategies (DOCX)
2. INFOGRAPHIC: The Issue: Health Inequity for People with Intellectual Disabilities in the COVID-19 Era (PDF)
2. TEXT AND CITES The Issue: Health Inequity for People with Intellectual Disabilities in the COVID-19 Era (DOCX)
3. Story Bank Information (DOCX)
4. What should an athlete do if (s)he feels his/her rights were violated (DOCX)
5. Know Your Health Rights (DOCX)
2. INFOGRAPHIC: The Issue: Health Inequity for People with Intellectual Disabilities in the COVID-19 Era (PDF)
2. TEXT AND CITES The Issue: Health Inequity for People with Intellectual Disabilities in the COVID-19 Era (DOCX)
3. Story Bank Information (DOCX)
4. What should an athlete do if (s)he feels his/her rights were violated (DOCX)
5. Know Your Health Rights (DOCX)
1. Additional Advocacy Opportunities and Strategies (DOCX)
2. INFOGRAPHIC: The Issue: Health Inequity for People with Intellectual Disabilities in the COVID-19 Era (PDF)
2. TEXT AND CITES The Issue: Health Inequity for People with Intellectual Disabilities in the COVID-19 Era (DOCX)
3. Know Your Health Rights (DOCX)
4. Story Bank Information (DOCX)
5. What should an athlete do if (s)he feels his/her rights were violated (DOCX)
2. INFOGRAPHIC: The Issue: Health Inequity for People with Intellectual Disabilities in the COVID-19 Era (PDF)
2. TEXT AND CITES The Issue: Health Inequity for People with Intellectual Disabilities in the COVID-19 Era (DOCX)
3. Know Your Health Rights (DOCX)
4. Story Bank Information (DOCX)
5. What should an athlete do if (s)he feels his/her rights were violated (DOCX)