WASHINGTON, DC: The Special Olympics hired Topics Education, a Charlotte, NC-based education outreach firm, to further develop and promote its decade old, “Get Into It” curriculum for K-12 students. The agency is tasked with promoting the curriculum, which aims to foster inclusion of and understanding for people with intellectual disabilities, through social media and teacher and student outreach. The organization hopes to officially push and launch and the revised program in July 2010, during the Special Olympics event in Nebraska.
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