Consider the basketball. Left alone on flat ground, it is just a basketball. Now put the basketball in the hands of a Special Olympics Texas athlete. What happens next is much more than basketball. She throws the basketball through the hoop and feels joy. Her family cheers with pride. Spectators without an intellectual disability start to see her a little differently, perhaps re-considering how they view people with intellectual disabilities. Little by little, the world changes. The sport is the medium, but the real power lies within the Special Olympics experience and all the people it touches. From Special Olympics Texas, the community sees a new way of thinking, feeling and acting. In the moments of the Special Olympics...
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