Congress makes clear in IDEA that the nation has two goals related to the inclusion of children with disabilities in American schools: to provide for the appropriate education of disabled children and to ensure that all children learn that disability is a natural part of the human experience. SO Get Into It® helps kids with and without disabilities learn to make a difference — to each other and to their school community. In service to each other and the community, they are also in service to our nation.
     -Sue Swenson, Executive Director, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation

Special Olympics’ new SO Get Into It program will help physical educators address the National Standards for Physical Education by helping their students develop understanding and respect for differences among people in physical activity settings. The National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) is pleased to be involved. 
     -Dr. Judy Young, Executive Director, NASPE

SO Get Into It will call on many Chinese youth to come into Special Olympics activities energetically. They will lead and help the people with intellectual disabilities to achieve success
     -Zhang Tianlun, Director, China SO Get Into It Team

What a wonderful kit! It is well-organized and has lots of thought-provoking activities. I gave the kit to my son’s teacher at school, since she has her classes work on projects that help them to better understand the disabled. My family and I really enjoyed the videos, and I am giving those to this teacher as well. She was very happy to receive the kit, and I know she will love the videos. It was especially encouraging to see regular students helping the special students, learning together and just being friends. 
     -Bobbie Selan, Parent, Special Olympics Pennsylvania

The SO Get Into It curriculum has opened many doors in our school district. Many young and middle school year students have been able to learn and relate to their peers with learning problems. Not only has it helped break down barriers but has been beneficial in making our character education program one that was interesting and exciting. My special needs students have done presentations to our school as well as my university class on handicapped awareness and every time they are asked why they are doing so well they say, “it is because I am doing Special Olympics and have more confidence in myself.” Isn’t that great? To me that is what it is all about and why the SO Get Into It curriculum has been so beneficial.
     -Kathy Wolfert of Rolla, Missouri, Special Educator

The event that has influenced me most this school year is when two people competing in Special Olympics came to our school and talked about people with disabilities participating in Special Olympics. That has influenced me most this school year because I think that it is very important that we learn about people with disabilities. I learned a lot from that event and I would like to learn more. Some people, unfortunately, have gotten it into their heads that people with disabilities cannot perform certain tasks as well as us and have decided to be unkind to them. It is true that people with disabilities cannot do certain things that we can, but that is not a reason to dislike them and to be mean to them.
     -From an essay written by Harris Kaplan from Roosevelt Middle School in West Orange, New Jersey

My husband and I are the parents of a South Carolina gymnastics World Games athlete and we are both middle school teachers. Thank you so very much from a parent's heart for creating such a curriculum. What a wonderful resource for us to help our children's teachers build acceptance and tolerance with peers. Thank you so very much from a teacher's heart. I absolutely love what I do and being able to guide my students to the level of acceptance and tolerance that your curriculum provides is incredible. Oh, what tools you have provided! Oh, the impact they will have!
     -ReBecca Kutcher, parent of athlete Trista Kutcher, South Carolina