• Eligibility Guidelines

     "Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me brave in the attempt.” Eunice Kennedy Shriver

     Any student enrolled with 91ÖÆƬ³§ who meets the following criteria: 

    1. According to the World Health Organization, intellectual disability is a condition of arrested or incomplete development of the mind characterized by impairment of skills and overall intelligence in areas such as cognition, language, and motor and social abilities.  Intellectual disability can occur with or without any other physical or mental disorders. Although reduced level of intellectual functioning is the characteristic feature of this disorder, the diagnosis is made only if it is associated with a diminished ability to adapt to the daily demands of the normal social environment.  

     

    1. All eligible athletes must be at least 8 years of age or older.

     

    1. Eligibility is limited to people who have closely related developmental disabilities such as those who have functional limitations, both in general learning and in adaptive skills such as recreation, work, independent living, self-direction or self-care. When the term “intellectual disabilities” or other similar descriptor is not used to identify the person in a local area, eligibility should be determined by whether or not the person has functional limitations in both general learning and adaptive skills. “Developmental disability” is the term most often used to describe persons with both limitations. Other terms that may be used synonymously with developmental disability are developmental handicap, developmental delay or severe disabilities.

     

    1. Students with functional limitations that are based solely on a physical, behavioral, emotional, specific learning disability or sensory disability are not eligible.