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Eurice Kennedy Shriver Research Paper

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In 1962, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of John F. Kennedy, started ‘Camp Shriver’ on her farm in Maryland. This turned into what we know today as the Special Olympics. Shriver also did a lot of other work to benefit the lives of many people with intellectual disabilities. But before all of that, she was born in 1921 and grew up in Brooklyn, Massachusetts along side her eight brothers and sisters. She went on to attend college at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree. One of Eurices’ sisters, Rosemary, was born with a mild mental retardation. Rosemary had brain surgery to try and help her condition, which ended up making it worse. This had a big impact on Eurice and her family. Because of this, Eurice was very exposed to people with intellectual disabilities while growing up, which is what …show more content…

Together they helped bring attention to people with intellectual disabilities and more scientists began doing research and more doctors were trained to work with them. 1962 is when Camp Shriver began and spread across the country, eventually evolving into the Special Olympics. Shriver also did a lot of work in social justice. During that time she ran a juvenile agency, worked inside a prison to learn more about prisoners, and worked with people who were released from prison, even inviting some of them to live in her home. She then moved to Chicago and worked in the Chicago Juvenile Court. Up until her death on August 11h, 2009 at the age of 88, Eurice continued to work with individuals with intellectual disabilities and was still on the Board of Directors for the Special Olympics. Shriver was honored in many different countries for all the work she did for those individuals. She received honorary degrees from 11 different universities including Yale University, the College of the Holy Cross, and Newton

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