Special Olympics UAE team thanks all participating schools for being part of this movement towards creating a more inclusive environment in our society.

As we look forward to certifying schools as Unified Schools and Unified Champion Schools and highlighting their achievements, we request you to share with us your school's evidence for this semester using this form.

If you have any enquiries about Unified Champion School programs, please contact ucs@specialolympics.ae

If you have any communications, social media and media queries or requests, please contact ucs@placecomms.com

General Instructions 

1. You need to be registered to the UCS program for us to review your report
   • Registration available on specialolympics.ae 
2. You do not need to fulfil all the criteria in one semester
3. You are required to submit your Unified Sports activities and become a Unified School
4. You may start working on offering Unified Clubs and Whole School Engagement in the upcoming semester
5. You can save the report, edit it later, or share the link with another colleague by clicking on the save icon below, you just need to create a free jotform account
6. Please ensure that all fields are filled accurately with the correct coordinator names and school names. Please be sure to submit all true and accurate statements and evidence.

Athlete: a person who has one of the following conditions: Intellectual or developmental disabilities

1. Intellectual Disabilities (ID): a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem-solving) and in adaptive behaviour, which covers a range of everyday social and practical skills.
2. Developmental Disabilities (DD): are a group of conditions due to an impairment in physical, learning, language, or behaviour areas. These conditions begin during the developmental period, may impact day-to-day functioning, and usually last throughout a person's lifetime.

Unified Partner: a person without ID/DD who trains and plays as a teammate alongside Special Olympics Athletes. This person can be someone with other disabilities.

Unified: to be inclusive of people with and without intellectual or developmental disabilities.

Unified Sports: an ongoing sports training/league that joins people with and without intellectual or developmental disabilities on the same team.

Unified Sports Course: a course provided by Special Olympics to certify school teachers on how to run an inclusive sports session.

Unified Leaders Club: a group of students with and without intellectual or developmental disabilities in a club that provides opportunities for youth to plan, lead and participate in activities, interact with peers in a supervised setting. Some clubs focus on a specific area (leadership, environment, arts, robotics, science, etc.)

Inclusive Youth Leadership: when young people of all abilities are given opportunities to be leaders in their schools and communities.

Whole School Engagement: activities that positively impact school climate by including all students, teachers, staff, administrators.

People of Determination (PoD): Under the National Policy for Empowering People with Special Needs, people with special needs or disabilities will be referred to as 'people of determination' to recognize their achievements in different fields.

Neurodiverse: displaying or characterized by autistic or other neurologically atypical patterns of thought or behaviour; not neurotypical

Unified School: A school that offers Unified Sports during one semester.

Unified Champion School: A school that completes all UCS program criteria.

We remind you to save the form by clicking on the Save and Continue Later icon below this question.

This will prevent loss of your work and the ability to re-open the same form from any other location. You can also share the link with your colleagues to add their work.

Sports can provide a way to break down barriers and promote inclusion. It helps reduce stigma and discrimination and changes the attitude of sports custodians in schools, who have the power to permit or deny children the right to take part in physical activity.

Schools are required to offer Unified Sports in one of the semesters to gain the title Unified School, and in all 3 semesters to gain the title of Unified Champion School. Schools are required to ensure that a staff member who has attended the Unified Sports Course by SO.

Section Instructions:

1. Select the number of activities you are reporting
2. Select the number of students participating in the activity
3. Each activity should have 2-8 students (You are required to upload rosters of activities with more students)
4. Answer all the following questions
5. Upload any supporting evidence

When selecting the sports model used, consider the guidelines below:

1. Recreational:
   1. Does not follow any prescribed training, competition and/or team composition requirements
2. Developmental:
   1. Teammates are not required to be of similar abilities
   2. Teammates of higher abilities serve as mentors to assist teammates of lower abilities in developing sport-specific skills and tactics and successfully participating in a cooperative team environment.
3. Competitive:
   1. All athletes and partners on a Unified Sports competitive team must have attained the necessary sport-specific skills and tactics to compete without modification of the current Special Olympics Official Sports Rules
   2. Teams that participate in this model may be eligible for advancement to Regional and World Games.

Important information on reporting Unified Robotics:

Unified Sports: If you participated in Unified Robotics 2022. You can submit it as a Unified Sports activity. 

Unified Leaders Club: If your school has a Unified Robotics club or did transform the team participating in UR2022 to a recognized club in your school, you can submit it as a Unified Leaders Club. 

Whole School Engagement: If your school participated in Fans in the Stands for Unified Robotics, you can submit it as a Whole School Engagement activity.

We remind all schools that Unified Robotics is a recreational sports program and can be reported as Unified Sports activity.