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Special Olympics, Washington, DC.
Curr Sports Med Rep. 2015 May-Jun;14(3):165-70. doi: 10.1249/JSR.0000000000000158.
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.
特殊奥林匹克运动会是世界上为智障运动员服务的最大体育组织。由于他们的特殊需求,特殊奥林匹克运动会设计了众多专门针对智障运动员的项目,包括世界上最大的针对智障人士的公共健康筛查项目,即特殊奥林匹克健康运动员项目。本文在影响针对智障运动员的医疗专业教育的背景下,描述了健康运动员项目及其一些成果。