Intelligence, Thinking, Learning and Communication

• Communication and interaction are critically important to learning, thinking, and development

• Learning can happen without effective communication, but communication can help organize thoughts and information and can help verify learning.

• The inner life of a person with limited communication and labeled as having a severe or profound intellectual disability may be much more complex than people around them assume.

• People have intellectual needs, too, even if they cannot speak and have been presumed to have a profound intellectual disability.