Young Athletes

The Young Athletes program was designed by Special Olympics for children with Intellectual disabilities or intellectual developmental disabilities, between the ages of 2 and 7. This is a mother and child program that incorporates fundamental sports skills would than transition into skills used for whichever sports they embark upon, being running skills, kicking skills, or throwing skills amongst others. This is to create a stronger, enduring, more flexible and improve the athletes’ ability to balance.

This program allows everyone to enjoy in the sharing of positive energy of sports to all participants being the athletes’, their siblings, parents, caregivers amongst others in the community. This program aims at creating a homeostasis environment for the athletes where health, fitness, nutrition, and overall wellbeing and balanced is promoted.