Healthy Athletes is dedicated to providing health screenings and education to our athletes while changing the way future health professionals interact with people with intellectual disabilities.

Special Olympics is the world’s largest public health organization for people with intellectual disabilities, providing access to free health services for a population with significant, unmet health needs. Often, those with intellectual disabilities and their families don’t understand what is needed to optimize their health. Healthy Athletes provides accessible information, resources, systems and policies at the individual, community, national and global levels that support them in realizing sustainable healthy and productive lives.

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WHAT
​WE DO

Special Olympics Healthy Athletes® provides free health exams in a fun, welcoming environment that removes the anxiety that often accompanies a visit to a doctor or dentist. Thousands of free health exams are given to Special Olympics Louisiana athletes each year.

VOLUNTEER BENEFITS

Special Olympics health programs not only serves athletes but also trains health care professionals. After working with Healthy Athletes® , these dedicated professionals go back to their practices with increased knowledge of and compassion for people with intellectual disabilities.

CLINICAL
​DIRECTORS

Special Olympics Clinical Directors are volunteer professionals who are responsible for working with their local Special Olympics Program and other volunteer health professionals in coordinating the local Healthy Athletes Program.​
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Click Here for more info
on becoming a Clinical Director

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DISCIPLINES

Fit Feet

FUNfitness

Health Promotion

Healthy Hearing

Opening Eyes

Special Smiles

Strong Minds

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