Extension Scouting
Country	Worldwide
Founder	Robert Baden-Powell[dubious – discuss][citation needed]
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Extension Scouting are programs in Scouting organizations which cater for young people with special needs.

Background

Extension Scouting was earlier called Scouts Malgré Tout^{[citation needed]}, which is French for "Scouts Despite Everything". It aims to meet the mandate^{[further explanation needed]} from Robert Baden-Powell, founder and first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association in the United Kingdom, that the programme be made "open to all."^{[1][better source needed]}

Young people with special needs join in with Scout groups on a regular basis but some organizations provide a special parallel program tailored to these participants. For example, The Scout Association of the United Kingdom formed a Disabled Scout Branch in 1926 and has various Scoutlink groups around the country. Scoutlink is a program run by The Scout Association of the United Kingdom in order to provide support and involvement for young people and adults with developmental disabilities, a form of Extension Scouting^{[dubious – discuss][citation needed]} but is also the name of an Internet chat site and joint programs between The Scout Association in Northern Ireland and Scouting Ireland.

Extension Scouting is known by different names:

• in the Netherlands, "Blauwe Vogels" (Blue Birds), after the play L'Oiseau Bleu by Maurice Maeterlinck;
• in Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen, "AKABE", Anders KAn BEst (Different is all-right);
• in Polish Scouts^[which?], "Nieprzetarty Szlak [pl]";
• in Kenya Scouts Association, "Street Scouts".