A Learning Experience

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A Learning Experience
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What China Learned

• Special Olympics athletes are capable
• Athletic performances
• Education
• Jobs
• Friendships
• More
• Team USA is comprised of respectful, friendly,
  and interesting people

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Views About Disability

• I know I can
• Walk out of the family, walk into a bigger world
• Give a loving heart develop deep friendship
• Special Olympics Games connect hearts
• Special Olympics spirit Equality, embrace and
  solidarity
• Enhance the Special Olympics spirit and promote
  good citizenship and social progress
• Advance the humanitarian cause, and build a
  harmonious society
• Be a nice host and give your heart to the Special
  Olympics

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Views About Disability

• Special Olympics You are not alone
• Get everyone to care people suffering from ID,
  and support the endeavor to promote the Special
  Olympics
• Set up a central stage for the Special Olympics
  movement, and build a warm family for
  intellectually challenged people
• Lets meet in intelligent YangPu and enjoy
  wonderful Special Olympics
• Lighten up the torch of Special Olympics by love
  and beauty the YangPu by civilization

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Views About Disability
Team USA is confident that the Chinese people
with whom we had repeated interactions will no
longer harbor low expectations for persons with
disabilities
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What Team USA Learned

• Its not all about the swimming
• China offered a genuine welcome and hospitality
  to athletes and coaches from all nations!
• China is making serious efforts to include
  persons with disabilities in community life,
  though efforts seem to be recent
• As individuals, we can make a difference

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New Friends
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Epilogue
China is our movements future. This pioneering
effort to bring the Special Olympics message to
the largest nation on earth opens the chance for
change, for with sports achievement comes
achievement in family, in school, on the job and
in life. Timothy ShriverPresident and CEO of
Special Olympics