• To provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with Intellectual Disability, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families and other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
• All Special Olympics activities - at the local, state, national and international levels - reflect the values, standards, ceremonies and events of the Olympic movement.
• To the greatest extent possible, Special Olympics activities are run by local volunteers, in order to create greater opportunities for public understanding of those persons with Intellectual Disability.
