Unified Sports
Unified Sports to Create a Better Future
Jiarui
Yuhang
Region
East Asia
Program
China
Project Year
2024
Jiarui and Yuhang are spreading inclusion using Unified Sports and unique challenges!
About the Project Leaders
Jiarui Han, a 20-year-old youth leader from Special Olympics China is a student from the Department of Special Education at Hunan Normal University. He emphasizes the importance of mutual communication and cooperation between special and ordinary children for educational integration. Inspired by an integration partner from Changsha Special School, Han advocates for the "integration of the disabled and the able-bodied" to break barriers between general and special education, promote educational equity, and provide diverse educational options. Han's initiative, the "Do You Dare" challenge, involves ordinary and special students participating in Unified sports activities together. This approach aims to foster peer relationships, promote a positive societal attitude towards special groups, and create a more inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.
Yuhang Fu, a 16-year-old student at Changsha Special Education School and a participant in Special Olympics China, excels in long-distance running and ball games. Fu aims to challenge peers and highlight the appeal of running to promote understanding of their group. Fu and their sister applied for this project to showcase their abilities through sports and raise awareness about their community.
About the Project
Jiarui and Yuhang aim to empower individuals with intellectual disabilities through track and field, encouraging friendships and overcoming negative emotions. Jairui and Yuhang aim to change negative attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities in their community. They will start by conducting a questionnaire at their school to gauge student perspectives on Unified activities. Incorporating a game, they plan to shift views on supporting those with intellectual disabilities.
Next, the youth leaders will host a Unified Track and Field Day. The event will kick off with warm-up activities, music, and a talent show. This will be followed by track and field events, including a distance relay, 25-meter sprint, potato-sack race, obstacle race, and a 4x100 meter relay. After the Unified Track and Field Day, Jairui and Yuhang will conduct another survey to understand how attitudes/feelings toward those with and without disabilities changed. This project was intentionally designed to be easily recreated so that not only can the Unified Track and Field be recreated in the future, but it can also be recreated by other schools across their community!
Jiarui Han, a 20-year-old youth leader from Special Olympics China is a student from the Department of Special Education at Hunan Normal University. He emphasizes the importance of mutual communication and cooperation between special and ordinary children for educational integration. Inspired by an integration partner from Changsha Special School, Han advocates for the "integration of the disabled and the able-bodied" to break barriers between general and special education, promote educational equity, and provide diverse educational options. Han's initiative, the "Do You Dare" challenge, involves ordinary and special students participating in Unified sports activities together. This approach aims to foster peer relationships, promote a positive societal attitude towards special groups, and create a more inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.
Yuhang Fu, a 16-year-old student at Changsha Special Education School and a participant in Special Olympics China, excels in long-distance running and ball games. Fu aims to challenge peers and highlight the appeal of running to promote understanding of their group. Fu and their sister applied for this project to showcase their abilities through sports and raise awareness about their community.
About the Project
Jiarui and Yuhang aim to empower individuals with intellectual disabilities through track and field, encouraging friendships and overcoming negative emotions. Jairui and Yuhang aim to change negative attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities in their community. They will start by conducting a questionnaire at their school to gauge student perspectives on Unified activities. Incorporating a game, they plan to shift views on supporting those with intellectual disabilities.
Next, the youth leaders will host a Unified Track and Field Day. The event will kick off with warm-up activities, music, and a talent show. This will be followed by track and field events, including a distance relay, 25-meter sprint, potato-sack race, obstacle race, and a 4x100 meter relay. After the Unified Track and Field Day, Jairui and Yuhang will conduct another survey to understand how attitudes/feelings toward those with and without disabilities changed. This project was intentionally designed to be easily recreated so that not only can the Unified Track and Field be recreated in the future, but it can also be recreated by other schools across their community!