Sport, a lever for inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities
Athletes, coaches and Special Olympics representatives played boccia and table tennis at the European Commission to promote further inclusion of people with disabilities during European Sports Week.
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00:00For European Sports Week, athletes with intellectual disabilities from all over the EU and European civil servants try their hand at boccia and table tennis.
00:13The event, organized by Special Olympics at the European Commission, aims to promote the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the EU.
00:22It's an opportunity to challenge persistent prejudices in sport and in society.
00:29People are scared, they don't know how to speak with special people, and they think they are only kids, but we are human beings.
00:45We work, we go to school, we have friends.
00:50People with intellectual disabilities often face stigmatization and isolation, once the president of Special Olympics Europe and Eurasia.
00:58Regrettably, globally, it's the most underemployed, undereducated, the most unhealthy, regrettably the most trafficked, the most exploited, often the most abused.
01:10The plight facing people with intellectual disabilities is scandalous.
01:13In his view, the emphasis must be on education and awareness raising.
01:19Look around you. These people will go back to their offices and they'll have a different understanding of what intellectual disability is.
01:28Maybe it's intellectual ability. Maybe it's different abilities.
01:32A lot of it has to do with that social education, that awareness raising, the proximity.
01:38Over 20 million people have intellectual disabilities in Europe.
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