It is interesting and fascinating to know that even if our aging is accompanied by a natural change in our cognitive abilities, it appears that the qualitative nature of cognitive change remains the same throughout adulthood.

SO? We need to focus on developing outcomes that maintain these abilities alive! We need to promote outcomes that clearly help the people with developmental disabilities to use as many words as possible, to offer alternative names to things. In addition, we need to promote outcomes that help them make computations such as “if the slice of pizza costs $1.75 and you pay with $2.00, how much change are you supposed to get back?