Interview Guidelines

Interview Guidelines

• Do not refer to athletes as “kids”, “special needs” or “disabled”
  • When referencing someone’s abilities, use “intellectual disability”
• Those WITH an intellectual disability should be referred to as athletes
• Those WITHOUT an intellectual disability should be referred to as Unified partners
• If you need to generalize a group, you can say “players”, “teammates”, “participants”, or “athletes and partners”
• Start your answer to each question by repeating the main point of the question:
  • For example:
    • Question – What is Unified Sports?
    • Response – “Unified Sports combines people with and without intellectual disabilities on sports teams”

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