The Special Olympics is a premier sporting organization that provides adults and children with physical and intellectual disabilities an opportunity to train and compete among themselves. From the organization’s webpage, inclusive health is one of the tasks they are involved in. Together with partners, the Special Olympics aspires to improve the health outcomes for people with physical and mental disabilities to close the gap with the healthy population who are more advantaged in terms of access and affordability. They recognize that people with Intellectual Disabilities encounter problems in healthcare and have thus come up with multiple initiatives to mitigate the problem.
From the MD Presentation video, it is apparent that an individual suffering from profound intellectual and multiple disabilities is unable to communicate verbally and requires constant supervision. Their movement and coordination of body organs are also impaired and they require lifetime care by others. Despite the Special Olympics being specifically designed for people with intellectual difficulties, the severe case of profound intellectual and multiple disabilities complicates her participation in any activity or initiative. Interestingly, her parents have given her some freedom by getting having her in her own house. However, she is under constant care and observation of the people she lives with.
Consequently, the appropriate type of accommodation, according to Miller, is a substitute curriculum. Under a substitute curriculum, she will be provided with different materials and instructions. The provision of these items is especially important because her learning abilities are compromised by her limited to no speech. However, this arrangement should not turn into a geographical inclusion where the special needs students are placed with regular students but the topic they are learning has nothing to do with the goals of the class. Geographical inclusion might give normal students the impression that special needs students are different from them.