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Best Buddies International The Best Buddies International Wikipedia page shows what this organization does for people with special needs all around the world. This webpage could be inspiring to many people to who view the webpage and are looking to help out in their communities for Best Buddies. Best Buddies is an organization that helps people with intellectual disabilities and pairs them up with a buddy who hangs out with them to have fun and explore different aspects of life and help open eyes to different experiences to help grow learning. This article is really well organized and well written. This webpage definitely gets the point across of what Best Buddies is and describes the various places it takes place in whether it be throughout the community or through a local high school. There is a clear description of every way Best Buddies is used in each place listed below the subcategories. I would like to edit this article since there is little information about certain impacts this program makes on individuals across the world. In quote from Best Buddies International webpage which says, "As a result of their involvement with Best Buddies, people with IDD secure rewarding jobs, live on their own, become inspirational leaders, and make lifelong friendships". In the high school section I would like to edit and talk about a peer tutor gym class that is used in high schools to help students with intellectual disabilities have fun and stay active while hanging out with a buddy for the class period. Best Buddies is a way to interact and form friendships in high school and give confidence to both the tutors and peers looking to learn proper communication skills during life. Peer tutor has impacted my life because it was a key start into working with people with intellectual disabilities. This article does a great job overall and could use a little more in depth detail.

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 * Schmidt, Emily. "Peers Motivate Students to Success in Gym." The Independent :. The Independent, 28 Jan. 2015. Web. 06 Mar. 2015.
 * "Best Buddies International." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2015.