How can intellectual skills be developed?

Intellectual and developmental disabilities carry a real stigma that an individual is not able to achieve.  Our services primarily cater to these persons.  Therefore, my question to you is just intellectual and developmental disability necessarily means that the individual has just an academic deficiency or can their intellectual skills be developed in some other form?  For example, teaching a skill, doing things that come natural, watching other people and learning something and etc.  Let me know your thoughts.

How do you celebrate Labor Day?

Labor Day just passed.  Therefore, I thought I will be interesting to hear your thoughts as a person with a disability about what Labor Day means to you.  Is it just another day?  Is it in everyday?  Is it all year?  Do you even acknowledge it as a holiday?  Let me know how you feel about “Labor Day”?

Reference points:

http://wid.org/center-on-economic-growth/policy-summit/jacobson-labor-day-is-no-time-to-celebrate-for-people-with-disabilities

http://www.droregon.org/the-dro-blog/labor-day-should-celebrate-all-workers