Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Sports Offered:
From 4 to 10 July, Special Olympics New Zealand will hold its second ever Awareness Week!
Special Olympics New Zealand's Philip Lomas is featured on Attitude TV, giving insight into the world of a young man with autism.
I have autism and other different ways of being.
New Zealand Singer Songwriter Sarah Conlan was honoured to win a Nation wide songwriting competition - her song Soaring High was chosen as the 2013 New Zealand Special Olympics National Summer Games Anthem.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Sports Offered: