Special Olympics Provider Director

At the 2005 Scientific Assembly in San Francisco, the AAFP and Special Olympics unveiled a timely partnership that will seek to improve access to health care and healthy physical activity for Special Olympics athletes and other people with intellectual disabilities.

As part of the partnership, Special Olympics has created the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes Provider Directory, an online database enabling patients with disabilities to find health care professionals in their area willing to treat patients with intellectual disabilities.  This piece allows family physicians to identify themselves as willing to treat people with intellectual disabilities and provide them with medical care and the examination requirements for participation in Special Olympics.

MAFP members who would like to sign up can go to www.specialolympics.org/providerdirectory.