title: The special olympics healthy athletes experience.
abstract: Special Olympics is the largest sports organization in the world serving athletes with intellectual disabilities. Because of their unique needs, Special Olympics has designed a multitude of programs specifically for athletes with intellectual disabilities, including the world's largest public health screening program for people with intellectual disabilities, known as the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes Program. This article describes the Healthy Athletes program and some of the results of the program within the context of impacting health care professional education with respect to athletes with intellectual disabilities.
authors.affiliation: Special Olympics, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Matt
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Holder
mesh_terms: D056352:Athletes; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011634:Public Health; D064846:Sports for Persons with Disabilities