OUR MISSION

The mission of the International Institute of SPORT (IIOS) is to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities in the less economically developed countries worldwide.

WHO WE ARE

We are a non-profit advocating for the disabled in areas of public access, education, integration, job skills, physical rehabilitation, therapeutic recreation and disaster relief. We are educators, artists, administrators and professionals. We are also networkers and are grateful for our partners.

WHAT WE DO

We engage children and adults in art projects geared to developing an understanding of disability. We help rehabilitate and train disabled athletes for the Paralympics. We help disabled people become employees and business owners. We provide art supplies, medical supplies and mobility devices. We represent disabled artists in the world art market. We advocate for the disabled in business and government affairs to help secure access to jobs and transportation.

Crutches & Colors Curriculum Introduced

The Global Art Initiative, Burnet, TX - december 1, 2009

The Global Art Initiative is proud to introduce a new student curriculum entitled Crutches & Colors. This five-day educational program was designed by Adaptive Art Instructor Theresa Mosely.

The curriculum introduces the following disabilities to students:

Hemiplegia
Paraplegia
Quadraplegia
Visual and Hearing Impairment
Amputation

Basic art instruction is provided during each day's activities, and the students use their new art knowledge to paint one side of the aluminum crutches provided. The painted crutches will then be taken to underdeveloped countries, including Haiti and nations of Africa and Europe, where children of those countries will then paint the other side of the crutches and will deliver them to disabled people in their local communities.

Students are also given the opportunity to feel what it's like to be physically disabled through disability simulations.

The purpose of the curriculum is to help make young people aware that people with physical disabilities have talents and dreams like themselves and are no less valuable to society than they are.

We are currently seeking educators to pilot this course. It can be used in the elementary, middle and secondary levels.

The Global Art Initiative gives special thanks to Ella Snodgrass for piloting the Day 1 curriculum at Lorena Elementary School in Lorena, Texas. Click here for the story and photos.