The study of the improvement of eye-hand coordination skills and eye-breech for young disabled athletes Special Olympics, was carried out on a sample of 24 athletes (16-18 years), including 12 young people with intellectual disabilities supported by a group of able-bodied partners. The work was developed by the Course of Sport and Disability, Department of Exercise Science and Wellness, University of Naples Parthenope in collaboration with the College of St. Catherine of Siena, in Salerno, in the second phase of the project unique school and peer Special Olympics unified italian football. Method Athletes who took part in the first phase of the study for the verification of conditional capacity, had performed the following tests at coordination skills: the launch of the soccer ball with both hands, passing the ball with your dominant foot, shot on goal. The data collection was carried out over a period of five months with initial, intermediate and final projection into indoor stadium with a ball number 4. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relative performance of the eye-hand motor coordination and eye-foot noting the percentage of error in shooting and passing by conducting tests in an indoor soccer field to five for athletes and partners divided into group A and group B. Result and Conclusion The final data, recorded at the end of the second phase of the project, have shown positive results particularly for athletes of group B who participated in 10 meetings over the extra two hours of physical education during school hours. The intermediate survey of group B showed an increase in percentage quantifiable around about 6,5% while the end result showed an overall improvement rate of almost 8%.
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