Special Olympics

Florian Kiuppis is Professor of Theories, Concepts and Methods of Inclusive Education at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg, Germany and Professor of Education with a focus on Special Education / Inclusion at NLA University College, Bergen, Norway. He is also the head of the scientific committee for Special Olympics Germany.Daniela Schwarz is Postdoctoral Fellow and Teaching Advisor at Technical University Munich and Clinical Director, Special Olympics Germany, for the Health Discipline Strong Minds, and member of the scientific committee for Special Olympics Germany.

• Introduction: Special Olympics in Context of Inclusion Debates 1. The community inclusion of athletes with intellectual disability: a transnational study of the impact of participating in Special Olympics 2. Engagement with Special Olympics by the general public in 17 countries world-wide 3. Parenting Special Olympians: an agenda for ethnographic engagement4. Assessing changes in the self-reported community inclusion of persons with intellectual disability: contrasts between participants in Special Olympics and non-participants 5. ‘Life is team play’: social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the context of Special Olympics 6. Dream team: team sports in a community of adults with intellectual disability: How can participation in team sports develop the social competencies of people with intellectual disability? 7. The subject of Special Olympics: interrogating the inclusive potentials of a sport movement from an ableism-critical perspective