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The Special Olympics, the worldwide phenomenon that started in 1968, traces its origins to SIU and the pioneering therapeutic recreation work of William Freeberg. He served as a consultant for the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation and assisted Eunice Kennedy Shriver in establishing Special Olympics. Freeberg, the first person to earn a doctorate in recreation, also established Camp Little Giant, the first university-affiliated residential summer camping program for people with physical and intellectual disabilities, at SIU’s Touch of Nature Environmental Center.

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