Pictured: Long Island students with and without intellectual disabilities, and school staff, from Amityville, Center Moriches, Commack, Connetquot, Deer Park, Harborfields HS, Huntington, Islip, Kings Park, Northport, Patchogue-Medford, Rocky Point, Sayville, Sachem North HS, and Walt Whitman HS.
Over 350 Long Island high school students with and without intellectual disabilities, as well as their educators, attended a Unified Youth Summit at the Sayville Old Junior High School on Friday, November 7. At this event, students learned how to develop a plan to grow social inclusion and Unified programming in their schools.
The Special Olympics New York Unified Youth Summit is a free event for Long Island high school students offered as part of the Unified Champion Schools Program. The goal of this event is to bring students with and without disabilities together in a conference setting to educate and inspire them to make a positive impact in their schools and communities.
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