Special Olympics
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| Founders | Eunice Kennedy Shriver |
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| Founded | 1968 |
| Locations | 19th Street, N. W. |
| Washington, D. C. | |
| U. S. | |
| Headquarters | Washington |
| D. C. | |
| United States | |
| Assets | 85. 38 million USD (2012) |
| Income | 105. 5 million USD (2012) |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 2052278 |
About Special Olympics
Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities and physical disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to 5 million athletes and Unified Sports partners in 172 countries.
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Special Olympics: Teaching Makaton to help win football medals
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Special Olympics: Teaching Makaton to help win football medals
Special Olympics : Teaching Makaton to help win football medals
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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Liam McCarthy, 24, made his " happiest memory ever" winning a bronze medal as part of The Isle of Man football team at the Special Olympics Malta Invitational Games This Week .
Liam is non-verbal so communicates with his teammates through Makaton, a language programme made up of symbols, signs and speech.
He's taught his coach and teammates the language so they can communicate with him.
After two years of coronavirus restrictions, 23 countries came together to take part in the annual event which encourages people with learning disabilities to take part in sport.
Source of news: bbc.com
