A Sporting Chance.
A history of the Special Olympics GB by Susan Barton.
Dr Barton has written this engaging new history of Special Olympics GB, drawing on visual, documentary and interview material from athletes and their families.
The book maps the progress of the Special Olympics movement in this country, but also abroad.
It is an extraordinary story of the way sport can offer opportunities for personal development and ways of increasing aspiration and changing attitudes towards people with learning disabilities.