About Us

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Special Olympics Rhode Island (SORI) serves nearly 4,000 children and adults statewide, offering more than 1,600 year-round training and competition opportunities across 30 official sports. Each year, SORI hosts over 30 statewide tournaments, ensuring athletes can train, compete, and lead without financial barriers.
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Our Vision and Goals

Special Olympics envisions a world where people with intellectual disabilities lead healthy, vibrant lives grounded in ongoing sports and physical activities, sound nutrition and a deeply held commitment to improve, compete, achieve and demonstrate their personal bests to themselves and their communities.

Special Olympics envisions a world where people with intellectual disabilities and their families, know the best ways to optimize their health and well-being. We want to make sure that accessible information, resources, systems and policies exist at the individual at the individual, community, national and global levels that support them in realizing healthy and productive.
Our Reach

3,807

Athletes

1,741

Unified Partners

1,167

Volunteers

139

Unified Champion Schools

31

Sports Offered

63

Certified Athlete Leaders
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